March 19, 2024

Indonesian tin miner Timah receives export permit of 30,000 tons for 2024

Earlier this week, tin prices surged to their highest in seven months.

March 18, 2024

Global commodity trading profits topped $100 billion for second-best year ever

While earnings fell from 2022’s blockbuster records, profits across the sector still easily eclipsed prior highlights such as in 2008-2009.

March 18, 2024

Indonesia says Vale to build another $2bn HPAL plant

PT Vale Indonesia is exploring a potential investment in a high-pressure acid leaching plant in Sulawesi island.

March 18, 2024

Widjaja family’s consortium seeks private credit for mine deal

A consortium led by Golden Energy is sounding out private credit funds to finance its $1.65 billion acquisition of South32's Illawarra coal operation in Australia.

March 15, 2024

Copper price surges on supply threat as iron ore shows economic risks

Prices for two of the world’s most important mined commodities are diverging quickly.

March 15, 2024

Cost advantage of natural hydrogen sparks energy companies’ interest – report

At the end of 2023, 40 companies were searching for natural hydrogen deposits, up from just 10 in 2020, new research shows.

March 13, 2024

Amid nickel glut, Indonesia’s next president vows to keep ‘downstreaming’ policy

The policy drew investments of billions of dollars from smelting firms, most of them Chinese, and boosted Indonesia's exports.

March 13, 2024

Wyloo says industry will turn from LME without green nickel

The LME said that low carbon nickel could already be traded on its partner MetalsHub's system.

March 12, 2024

Column: Tin supply trapped in resource nationalism squeeze

The question is how long it will be before normal supply service is resumed in both Myanmar and Indonesia.

March 12, 2024

Barrick CEO Bristow drives another U-turn in a remote land

The second-biggest gold miner this month poured its first gold in Papua New Guinea in nearly four years.