August 3, 2021 BlackRock joins Citi to study plan to shut coal plants early The proposals involve buying coal plants in developing economies in Asia and operating them for as long as 15 years before closing the sites ahead of current schedules.
August 2, 2021 Australia and Guinea to drive global bauxite production growth – report Fitch forecasts Australian bauxite production growth to average 4% y-o-y in 2021, and Guinea's bauxite output to rise from 84.5mnt in 2021 to 133.8mnt in 2030.
July 30, 2021 State of the sector: Worker health, safety and equality in ASM — report While women make up a large percentage of the ASM workforce —they are largely invisible within the data.
July 29, 2021 Turquoise Hill’s profit surges over 33% on strong output Turquoise's second-quarter copper production from Oyu Tolgoi stood at 36,735 tonnes.
July 29, 2021 Gupta pays $25 million to end long-running spat with Rio Tinto The dispute with Rio dates back to the miner’s sale of the Dunkirk smelter in France to Gupta for $500 million in 2018.
July 27, 2021 Rio Tinto faces UK finance watchdog probe into value of Oyu Tolgoi The expansion of the Mongolia mine, Rio's biggest copper growth project, has seen costs balloon up to $6.75 billion.
July 25, 2021 Record profits and blockbuster dividends: Here come the miners The top-five western diversified miners may have earned a combined $85 billion for the first half of the year, according to analyst estimates, more than double the level from a…
July 25, 2021 Lynas posts record revenue on robust demand, shares hit 8-year high Australia's Lynas Rare Earths on Monday reported record fourth-quarter revenue as demand for the metals it mines that are used in electric vehicles, smartphones, and military equipment spurred prices higher.
July 24, 2021 What countries would make if they sold their Olympic medals at current metals prices London-based broker ETX Capital ran the numbers and found that the US would make over $1.14 million.
July 22, 2021 How transition metals destabilize high-energy-density li-ion batteries Japanese scientists discovered that high-valent transition metals destabilize lattice oxygen in oxide-based battery materials.
Iron ore logs annual gain in a dramatic recovery fuelled by steel exports Prices of the key steelmaking ingredient had come under pressure earlier this year on expectations of a supply glut and forecasts of faltering demand in China. December 31, 2025 | 09:27 am
