Column: LME warehousers bet the great metals destock is over
LME storage capacity grew modestly in the second quarter of this year, the first quarterly increase in two years.
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Trafigura metal executive Grenfell exits as unit pressure grows
Trafigura’s metals business has been struggling over the past eighteen months.
Another metals trader says it has been hit by nickel fraud
Kataman Metals alleges it paid $3.3 million for nickel from New Alloys Trading only to discover that there was no nickel inside the containers.
Ailing Chinese copper giant announces tie-up to help debt crisis
Maike until recently was responsible for a quarter of China’s refined copper imports, but ran into difficulties last year.
Congo wants ERG copper, cobalt assets in bid to regain control
The government and state-owned miner Gecamines say ERG has been too slow to develop the deposits.
OBITUARY: Don Bubar remembered as ‘key architect’ of critical minerals narrative
As enthusiasm for zero-emission technologies accelerates into the mainstream, Canada has lost one of its earliest and most ardent champions of critical minerals.
Improving gold-nickel alloy may boost fuel cell development
AuNi nanoparticles have emerged as a promising non-platinum alternative in fuel cell catalytic reactions.
Another deadly coal accident in China threatens output growth
A gas explosion on Monday at a mine in China’s third-largest coal province killed 11, halting operations there and ending a month-long run of declining prices for thermal coal.
Traders in CO2 credits saddled with vast stranded-asset pile
Trafigura Group, the world’s largest trader of carbon-removal credits, has suspended a consignment as it awaits the results of a probe into the forestry project behind the units.
