January 19, 2021 Cobalt price rally lifts EV Metal Index to fresh record high Cobalt use in newly-sold electric cars sets record and prices jump to 21-month high, lifting overall index to fresh monthly record.
January 19, 2021 Miners now saviours in green transition The whole system has to be rebuilt, and that is the onset of the revenge of the miners, says Robert Friedland.
January 19, 2021 Barrick, NovaGold report additional assay results for Donlin The Donlin deposit is said to host one of the largest and highest-grade undeveloped open-pit gold endowments in the world.
January 19, 2021 Gates, Bezos-backed fund offers $1bn to clean energy start-ups To be eligible, projects must have potential to cut global emissions by at least 500 million tonnes a year.
January 18, 2021 Ivanhoe’s Friedland taking ‘hard look’ at US projects The US remains under-explored because previous administrations have considered mining a "toxic" industry, Robert Friedland said.
January 18, 2021 Lithium Americas shares surge on Thacker Pass approval The US Bureau of Land Management gave final approval to the lithium mine in Nevada.
January 18, 2021 Gold price recovers despite stronger dollar Gold recovered from a near seven-week low on prospects of a historic US relief bill.
January 18, 2021 Premier updates ‘cornerstone asset’ PEA for McCoy-Cove Study suggests an 8-year, 1,070 t/d underground mine, producing an average of 102,000 gold oz. annually at all-in sustaining costs of $948 per oz.
January 17, 2021 Crystallex closer to being paid off by Venezuela The Canadian miner received a favourable ruling related to the gold mine that the Hugo Chávez regime expropriated back in 2008.
January 17, 2021 Hardy bacteria turn out to be good cobalt miners Geobacter could become the basis of new biotechnology to reclaim and recycle cobalt from lithium-ion batteries.
Precious metals craze prompts China fund to turn away investors UBS SDIC Fund had become increasingly concerned that investors could be exposed to heavy losses should a record-breaking bull market suddenly turn. December 27, 2025 | 08:00 am
