March 17, 2021 British Lithium to open mine by 2026 after gov’t funding The UK's Sustainable Innovation Fund has awarded British Lithium £2.9 million ($4m) to move its full-scale lithium mining plans forward.
March 17, 2021 Home: No relief for turbulent tin price as supply squeeze worsens The massive premium for prompt delivery has enticed a trickle of metal into exchange warehouses, but not enough to tame market wildness.
March 17, 2021 Kazatomprom may enter spot market after Yellow Cake deal Yellow Cake Plc, which bets on uranium prices, said on Monday that it had exercised a $100 million purchase option with Kazatomprom.
March 17, 2021 Rupert Resources drills more gold at Ikkari in Finland ahead of initial resource The company has completed 25,000 metres of drilling at Ikkari in 75 holes.
March 17, 2021 London Metal Exchange’s Japan head leaves bourse Xu Xiao was based at the LME's Singapore office and had also served as vice president, corporate sales for Asia since September 2016 before leaving at the end of February.
March 17, 2021 Swiss refiner says it can verify gold’s origin to combat illegal supply Technique takes samples of gold from a mine or supplier and creates a complex chemical and physical blueprint for the material against which subsequent shipments can be checked.
March 17, 2021 UK minister sees “very compelling reasons” not to open Cumbria coal mine Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng suggested the government would move to block the mine application.
March 16, 2021 Nickel demand for EVs to outpace lithium and cobalt – report Fitch expects nickel demand for EV battery manufacturing to average 29% annual growth rate until 2030.
March 16, 2021 Kazatomprom reports 3.6% rise in 2020 net income The company reported production of 19,477 of uranium ore concentrate in 2020, down 15% compared to 22,808 in 2019.
March 16, 2021 Aluminum price hits 9-year high on Chinese supply concerns The Chinese city of Baotou in Inner Mongolia ordered some shutdowns in a bid to meet its energy consumption targets for the first quarter.
How a reclusive ex-Glencore trader became Indonesia’s nickel king Arif Kurniawan has gone from earning paychecks at Glencore to controlling approximately a third of his country’s domestic trade in nickel ore. December 28, 2025 | 03:25 pm
