Lithium watchers shift focus from supply fears to storage demand
The growing confidence in demand for energy storage systems, or ESS, comes amid policy incentives, improving economics and expansion plans.
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Australia watchdog sues AVZ Minerals over Congo disclosure breaches
AVZ has been embroiled in a legal dispute with the DRC government since 2022 over ownership rights to the Manono project.
BHP to compensate Australian coal workers for Christmas shifts
BHP said last month it would be forced to take 'difficult decisions' for its remaining metallurgical coal business in Australia.
Column: China’s major commodity imports ease, except for iron ore
Crude oil, natural gas, copper and coal all showed declines from September.
Booming gold prices are hiding China’s deflationary pain for now
The rally is having an outsized impact on China even though the weighting of gold and platinum jewelry in the consumer basket is less than 1%.
Teck held on-off M&A talks with rival to Anglo for two years
Between May 2023 and May 2025, Teck had discussions with a “strategic counterparty,” which it only names as Party X in documents sent to shareholders.
The shipping mogul who carved a route to China’s African mining prize
Former merchant seaman opens access to Guinea’s vast untapped iron ore with a 370-mile cross-country railway.
Fortune Minerals secures additional funding to build Alberta refinery
The company plans to construct a facility to process concentrates from the NICO cobalt-gold-bismuth-copper mine in the Northwest Territories.
Barrick starts review to boost predictability, safety
Details of the review will be released in February, interim CEO Mark Hill said.
