December 14, 2021 Australia battery metals players eye S. Korea market prospects The Asian country controls a third of the $46 billion market for electric vehicle batteries.
December 13, 2021 Nobel winner suggests letting EVs power the grid to go green Rising adoption of battery-powered transport and the further development of vehicle-to-grid, or V2G, systems -- which allow the two-way flow of electricity -- could offer a potentially better option to…
December 13, 2021 Rio Tinto to write off $2.4bn Oyu Tolgoi loan to Mongolia Writing off Mongolia's debt would speed up the timeline for when the country can start receiving dividends from the project.
December 12, 2021 Sri Lanka shows off giant natural blue sapphire Sri Lankan authorities on Sunday put on show what they said was the world's largest natural corundum blue sapphire.
December 10, 2021 UAE’s EGA inks 3-yr Guinea bauxite supply deal with China’s Bosai China's demand for imported bauxite is set to increase by around 20% to 132 million tonnes in 2022.
December 9, 2021 Tsingshan starts producing EV battery raw material nickel matte in Indonesia In the past two weeks, two other Chinese companies have both announced plans to produce 40,000 tonnes per year of matte in Indonesia.
December 8, 2021 Gold demand in India seen best in a decade in festival quarter India consumed 446.4 tons of gold in 2020 and purchases were about 360 tons in the first nine months of this year, WGC data shows.
December 7, 2021 AIA sells out of almost $10 billion of coal investments The insurer completed the entire sale of directly-managed equity and fixed income portfolios in October, seven years ahead of its original target.
December 7, 2021 RANKED: World’s 10 biggest underground mines by tonnes of ore milled The ore that contains sufficient valuable mineral to be treated by milling process is what ends up going into the processing plant compared to run of mine ore production.
December 7, 2021 Erdene gains key environment nod, begins early work at Bayan Khundii in Mongolia A formal construction decision is expected in early 2022.
Iamgold’s Lemelin thanks mentor for Africa option Bruno Lemelin recalls his first Iamgold boss urging him to join Essakane in Burkina Faso as regional politics began to unravel. December 26, 2025 | 05:00 am
