June 12, 2024 The world needs more batteries — but not this many By 2025, the global battery industry will be able to produce more than five times as many cells as the world will need, BNEF forecasts.
June 12, 2024 Tsingshan plans another 50,000t nickel LME listing this year The company already listed nickel cathode from its Dingxing plant on the LME in the second quarter.
June 12, 2024 Gold rush to endure through 2024, though $3,000 mark may prove elusive Spot gold is trading around $2,300 per ounce after hitting a record $2,449.89 on May 20.
June 11, 2024 Deep contango in LME base metals signals weak nearby buying interest Spot prices for copper and aluminum in London have moved to sharply deeper discounts to the three-month contract this week.
June 11, 2024 Group Eleven shares leap on high-grade zinc-lead hits at Ballywire in Ireland One hole returned 29.6 metres grading 4% zinc, 6.6% lead, 78 grams silver per tonne and 0.15% copper from 283.4 metres depth.
June 11, 2024 AI helps quickly develop rare earth-free permanent magnet MagNex is a new rare earth-free permanent magnet that can be produced at 20% of the material cost of existing REEs magnets.
June 11, 2024 Gemfields picks ex-De Beers boss Bruce Cleaver as new chair Bruce Cleaver, who was at the helm of De Beers for seven years to 2023, takes the position effective July 1.
June 10, 2024 Critical Metals to acquire controlling stake in world’s biggest rare earth project The Tanbreez project in Greenland has a 28.2 million tonne TREO resource.
June 10, 2024 Ditching noble metals improves efficiency of zinc-air batteries A new metal-nitrogen-carbon catalyst for zinc-air batteries has proven to outperform noble metal catalysts.
June 10, 2024 Botswana in talks to raise stake in De Beers President Mokgweetsi Masisi also said the government will play a central role in selecting a new investor to replace Anglo at De Beers.
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