March 22, 2023

Cirba Solutions to pour $300m into South Carolina battery recycling plant

The plant will produce materials to power over 500,000 batteries every year, the company said.

March 22, 2023

Gold price stalls ahead of Fed interest rate verdict

Gold prices have since retreated by around $70 after the rescue of Credit Suisse.

March 22, 2023

Sprott expands energy transition fund suite with launch of nickel ETF

Sprott Nickel Miners ETF is the only US-listed exchange-traded fund focused on nickel mining companies.

March 22, 2023

Banking turmoil will not be major hit to commodities finance – CFOs

Trafigura CFO Christophe Salmon said he did not expect banks' appetite for financing commodities trade to wane.

March 22, 2023

JPMorgan traders should get prison for spoofing, US says

The former head of the bank's precious metals business and his top gold trader should get multiyear prison terms after they were convicted of spoofing.

March 22, 2023

Newmont said to be mulling sweetened bid for Newcrest

The world's no. 1 gold miner has gained partial access to Newcrest's corporate books, a sign that Newmont could make a revised offer.

March 22, 2023

Next decade to see green hydrogen market grow but challenges need to be addressed – report

IDTechEx expects the water electrolyzer market for green hydrogen production to grow to over $120 billion by 2033.

March 21, 2023

US Forest Service to OK land swap for Rio’s Tinto’s Arizona copper mine before July

Resolution mine would destroy a site of religious importance to Native Americans but supply more than a quarter of US copper demand for the green energy transition.

March 21, 2023

Study shows seafloor cobalt, nickel mining dramatically lowers battery metals environmental impact

Benchmark's lifecycle assessment of The Metals Co’s Pacific Ocean project shows nickel, cobalt from seabed perform better in almost every category including 70%-80% lower emissions than Indonesian nickel.

March 21, 2023

Trafigura bought some LME ‘nickel’ that was just bags of stones

The amounts of money involved are small, but the issue presents a fresh headache for the company.