Hybrid cars throw lifeline to platinum metals
PGMs - principally platinum and palladium - face a long-term structural decline in demand as their main use has been to clean auto exhausts.
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Canada mulls surtax on Chinese critical mineral products, batteries, solar products
Canada said is launching a 30-day public consultation period on whether to slap a potential surtax on Chinese critical mineral products.
Conuma Resources reopens coal mine in Canada after 24 years
The Quintette mine operated for 18 years until the previous owner, Teck Resources, closed it in 2000 due to a decline in coal prices.
AngloGold Ashanti to buy Centamin for $2.5 billion
Deal hands AngloGold Egypt's largest and first modern gold mine, and will make it the world’s no.4 producer of the precious metal.
Northvolt to cut staff, halt some output as EV demand falls
Northvolt vowed last year to invest $5.7 billion (C$7bn) in Canada's Quebec province to set up a battery plant.
Radius Gold enters copper porphyry project in Peru
Radius currently has two exploration-stage projects in Mexico and Guatemala.
Anglo American hired advisers to sell two nickel mines in Brazil
The two assets produce together about 38,000 tons of nickel per year.
Record weekly declines in miners and Bitcoin
The GDXJ closed the weekly with a record (nominal) decline – that we haven’t seen since May 2022.
Green funds with $14 billion eye first mining bets after slump
Leading miners have seen their valuations decline as slowing growth for electric cars and a weaker economy in China curtail demand for some commodities.
