Nickel price drops most since 2016 on Tsingshan deal
The nickel and stainless steel giant will provide 100,000 tonnes of nickel matte to Huayou Cobalt and battery materials maker CNGR Advanced Material.
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Seafloor miner DeepGreen plans listing through SPAC merger
Sustainable Opportunities Acquisition Corp will combine with DeepGreen in a $2.9bn deal.
Gold price slump led to $4.6bn monthly loss in ETFs
Global ETFs have retraced the last six months of overall inflows over the past four months, the WGC says.
Savannah’s Portugal lithium project may cost less than expected
Early results from metallurgical test work at Mina do Barroso show potential for lower capital and operating costs.
Five Eyes alliance urged to forge ties with Greenland to secure minerals
Greenland has huge deposits of rare earths.
Adriatic takes big strides forward at its brownfield projects in the Balkans
In late January Adriatic was granted an exploitation permit for its Veovaca project near Vares in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 50 km north of the capital, Sarajevo.
US judge rejects SEC bid to expand Rio Tinto fraud lawsuit on Mozambique coal business
The SEC filed a complaint against Rio in 2017 with allegations that it had fraudulently concealed the decline in value of Riversdale mining.
Asia seaborne coal prices start to retreat, China-Australia dispute lingers
There are signs that the price and demand surge for coal during the recent colder-than-expected winter across North Asia is starting to ease.
SQM plans to propose major lithium hydroxide expansion, CEO says
Company said lithium sales volumes in Q4 jumped 50% from the previous quarter, hitting a three-month record of more than 25,000 tonnes.
