February 5, 2023

UK grid asks coal reserve to prepare as cold snap looms

The Uniper SE-owned unit at the Ratcliffe plant in central England is warming and will be ready to provide power by 12:25 p.m. London time on Tuesday.

February 5, 2023

Tenaris says Benteler N.America halts sale of steel pipe business

Benteler North America Corp has called off a previously announced agreement to sell 100% of its shares in its steel pipe business to Tenaris.

February 4, 2023

Scholz is learning that it’s not easy going green

Under Scholz’s stewardship, the German industry is struggling to find new technologies and trade partners to provide the backbone for the coming green transformation.  

February 3, 2023

Alcoa says workers back 2024 restart of aluminum smelter in Spain

The US metals producer had reached a deal with workers in December 2021 to end primary aluminum production at San Ciprian.

February 3, 2023

Lykos Metals finds large gold deposits at Bosnia project

The concentration of gold at some locations was as much as 27.5 g/t in a continuous line of 60 metres.

February 3, 2023

Canada faces pressure to ban deep-sea mining

Scientists and NGOs are asking Ottawa to ban the activity, as the country hosts an international marine conservation summit that kicks off on Friday in Vancouver.

February 3, 2023

Russians bought record number of gold bars in 2022, data shows

State-controlled VTB Bank said it sold 33.8 tonnes of gold bars to customers in 2022, with clients holding 50 billion roubles ($711 million) of the metal.

February 2, 2023

LBMA implements optical AI technology to trace gold bars’ provenance

The LBMA has engaged America’s Alitheon to generate a digital fingerprint for gold bars, which allows for irrefutable identification, authentication, and traceability.

February 1, 2023

Brazil’s miners want Europe to help fight Amazon gold havoc

Brazil’s formal mining sector wants importing nations to require and enforce origin control.

February 1, 2023

How a Soviet nuclear site could be key to Europe’s EV market

A radioactive pond filled in and covered in grass in Sillamae, Estonia, is host to the only major processing plant outside Asia for rare earth metals used in the automotive…