May 3, 2024 Goldman Sachs settles 2014 class action lawsuit tied to metal trades The bank allegedly violated antitrust laws by conspiring to manipulate a benchmark for physical platinum and palladium prices.
May 3, 2024 Automakers win extension on use of Chinese graphite in EV tax credits The US Treasury Department gave automakers additional flexibility on battery mineral requirements for EV tax credits on some minerals from China, such as graphite.
May 3, 2024 Underwater power play for metals in full swing The International Seabed Authority, which next meets in July, is hashing out the world’s first underwater mining code.
May 3, 2024 Ever heard of strange metals? This is how to make them MIT physicists discovered a new way to make a state of matter known as a strange metal.
May 2, 2024 MP Materials reports wider-than-expected Q1 loss on weak rare earth prices The company reported adjusted loss of 4 cents per share, compared with analysts' expectations of a loss of 2 cents per share.
May 2, 2024 Albemarle may lower capex if lithium prices stay low The company needs to spend at least $1 billion a year to maintain its assets, its CEO said.
May 2, 2024 Treasury Metals to buy Giustra-backed Blackwolf Copper and Gold Treasury expects this business combination to help advance its Goliath Gold Complex project in Ontario to production.
May 2, 2024 New welding technology makes solar panels easy to recycle US-based researchers found that the use of femtosecond lasers to form glass-to-glass welds for solar modules would make the panels easier to recycle.
May 2, 2024 Albemarle profit just misses estimates on weak lithium prices Lithium prices had fallen by more than 80% in the year up to March, according to a basket tracked by Benchmark Mineral Intelligence.
May 2, 2024 Contango grows Alaska gold footprint with two major buys Contango is buying HighGold Mining and Avidian Gold Alaska, which will boost its annual production to over 150,000 ounces.
Chile copper supply gains seen years away, mining council warns Chile has the project pipeline to lift annual production to 7 million metric tons from about 5.4 million tons. January 23, 2026 | 10:08 am