February 5, 2021 Want to see a real short squeeze? Come to the tin market Stocks are nearly depleted, the contract is experiencing unprecedented degrees of technical tightness and the tin price is punching out seven-year highs.
February 5, 2021 Australia’s Northern Territory bans seabed mining The state cited the potential impact on the environment, sacred Indigenous sites and marine industries.
February 5, 2021 Trudeau eyes ‘leaps forward’ in integration with US on EVs, critical minerals Trudeau said it was important to have “a secure supply from a friend and an ally”, noting Canada has many of the rare earths minerals needed for car batteries and…
February 5, 2021 Nickel price: Indonesia halts deep-sea mining disposal The world’s biggest nickel producer has not officially banned deep sea tailings but by not issuing new permits could delay planned projects.
February 5, 2021 Tsingshan to finance bulk of $2.8bn Indonesia copper smelter with Freeport The smelter could produce copper pipes and wires with an output value of $10 billion.
February 5, 2021 Zambia is done for now with taking over mining companies Zambia last century had a painful experience with mine nationalization.
February 5, 2021 Northam said to consider bidding for Bokoni platinum mine The interest in Bokoni may suggest that higher metals prices are rekindling investors’ interest in reviving some of the mines in South Africa.
February 5, 2021 Rio Tinto issues mea culpa over Indigenous leadership upset It said it should have better communicated to the Australian Aboriginal group whose ancient rockshelters it destroyed of the recent management reshuffle.
February 4, 2021 US court upholds Trump’s national security tariffs on steel imports A three judge panel found the Commerce Department and Trump properly applied a Cold War-era trade law in imposing the tariffs.
February 4, 2021 BlackRock-backed GV Gold hires banks for London IPO The proposed IPO in the second quarter would value the Russian gold miner at up to $2 billion.
TechMet plans additional $200M raise, has Africa in sight CEO Brian Menell has said that the company is planning to make more investments in the coming months. February 09, 2026 | 09:17 am
