Triple Flag shares flat after Canada’s biggest mining IPO in 9 years

Led by former Barrick Gold Corp executive Shaun Usmar, Triple Flag provides up-front financing to miners in exchange for a share of future revenue or production.

Reuters | May 20, 2021 | 9:01 am

All roads lead to net-zero, not just the easy ones

Science gets in the way of net-zero in some areas but in many, many others, ways forward do exist.

Bloomberg News | May 20, 2021 | 8:34 am

Billionaire mining moguls fight fraud cops in £70m trial

Billionaire mining tycoons said the UK’s fraud prosecutor colluded with their own “bullying” lawyer to leak confidential information and manufacture grounds for a criminal probe that’s dragged on for almost a decade.

Bloomberg News | May 20, 2021 | 7:55 am

Visualizing the freefall in electric vehicle battery prices

With rising production and technological improvements, batteries are becoming cheaper to produce, making EVs increasingly competitive with gas-powered cars.

Govind Bhutada - Visual Capitalist | May 20, 2021 | 7:52 am

New digital exchange offers investors gold exposure and funding for miners

Mines in Australia and Ecuador have made available for sale around $93.50 million worth of gold at current prices, discounted to $80 million, on the Digital Metal Exchange (DMX).

Reuters | May 20, 2021 | 7:36 am

South Africa’s NUM labour union demands 15% wage hike from gold companies

Soaring global gold prices over the past year have seen earning by gold firms surge, but the companies have argued that above-inflation increases are unrealistic.

Reuters | May 20, 2021 | 7:31 am

SQM shuns fears of higher taxes in Chile, fast-tracks expansions

Expansions are expected to boost SQM's output to 180,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate and 30,000 tonnes of lithium hydroxide by the end of 2022.

Cecilia Jamasmie | May 20, 2021 | 7:09 am

The great commodities boom of 2021 is facing its first big test

Commodities rally is wavering on worries about faster inflation, Federal Reserve hints at easing stimulus and China’s warning over measures to cool price spikes.

Bloomberg News | May 20, 2021 | 6:43 am