March 21, 2022 Chinese electric carmaker calls battery price hikes ‘ridiculous’ Car manufacturers are trying to lure more customers just as government subsidies for cleaner vehicles fall away.
March 21, 2022 China orders power firms to replenish coal as prices remain high China is requiring miners to offer 80% of their production through long-term contracts at prices capped by a government-set benchmark.
March 21, 2022 Copper, gold, silver key to making carbon capture efforts succeed – study Chemists at Tsinghua University have developed a nano-scale structure that combines copper, gold and silver to work as a superior catalyst in a reaction whose performance will be essential if…
March 20, 2022 Climate impact from China’s coal push visible from space China’s increased reliance on coal to combat an energy shortage was never going to bode well for its ambitions to cut planet-warming emissions.
March 18, 2022 Nickel price drops 12% in another glitchy start to London trading Electronic trading stalled again Friday after a short flurry of deals when the market opened.
March 18, 2022 Zijin Mining reports record annual profit for second-year in a row The miner's revenue jumped 31.25% on an annual basis.
March 17, 2022 5 CHARTS: Mining supercycle – how soon is now? Pent-up demand, supply shocks, low stocks pushed aluminum, copper and coal prices to all-time highs, but new report suggests supercycle talk is premature.
March 17, 2022 Nickel price plunges as traders fume over latest London Metals mayhem Nickel fell by the maximum allowed for a second day as the market seeks to reset from last week’s historic short squeeze.
March 16, 2022 Australia unveils $360m in critical minerals funding to offset China dominance Projects to be funded include the second rare earth separation plant to be built outside China, a battery material refinery and a vanadium processing plant.
March 15, 2022 Gravity-defying lithium price rally continues with “little relief in sight” Chinese lithium prices double again in 2022, Benchmark’s mid-March assessment shows with seasonal restart of domestic brine supply unlikely to counter growing deficits.
Silver price suffers biggest loss since 2021, gold price falls from record Earlier, spot prices had soared to as high as $83.63 per ounce. December 29, 2025 | 08:54 am