Copper price extends recovery despite first Beijing 100,000 tonne metal auction
Copper price up 2% Tuesday despite Chinese plans to publicly auction a total of 100,000 tonnes of non-ferrous metals early next month.
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Zinnwald becomes sole owner of key German lithium project
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Aluminum is outperforming copper as China cracks down on prices
Aluminum has overtaken copper as the second-best performer on the London Metal Exchange this year.
Ukraine to auction titanium and zirconium miner in August
The country plans to auction Europe's largest titanium and zirconium miner, United Mining and Chemical Company, on Aug. 31.
Trafigura, Mubadala to launch sale of Spanish copper miner MATSA
Lundin Mining and Hudbay Minerals as well as South32 are likely to show an interest, a source told Reuters.
Korean scientists develop cheap, high-performance anode for sodium-ion batteries
Researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology created a sodium high-capacity material that can store 1.5 times more electricity than the graphite anode.
