KoBold Metals, a start-up backed by a coalition of billionaires including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, has raised $192.5 million in its latest financing round, which will allow it to speed…
Miner and commodities trader Glencore (LSE: GLEN) has tied up with electric vehicle (EV) battery start-up Britishvolt to build a new plant to recycle lithium-ion batteries in the United Kingdom….
Operating mines in the United States generated US$90.4 billion in mineral commodities in 2021, a 12% increase year-over-year, the US Geological Survey said in the 27th annual Mineral Commodity Summaries report…
Fortune Minerals (TSX: FT) intends to buy a defunct steel processing plant in Alberta and turn it into a cobalt refinery. The company says the plant, which it will purchase for $5.5 million, will significantly reduce the…
Sibanye-Stillwater (NYSE: SBSW; JSE: SSW) has walked away from a US$1 billion deal to acquire the Santa Rita nickel and Serrote copper mines in Brazil, which would have boosted its…
Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) said on January 10 that it expects to produce between 290,000 to 340,000 tonnes of copper in concentrate in 2022 at its Kamoa-Kakula copper…
Allkem (TSX: AKE; ASX: AKE) has released a feasibility study for its James Bay hard rock lithium project in Quebec, located 130 km east of James Bay and the Cree Nation of…
Lundin Mining (TSX: LUN) is acquiring Josemaria Resources (TSX: JOSE) for about $625 million for its namesake copper-gold project in San Juan, Argentina. The Canadian miner is acquiring the company for $1.60 a…
Brendan Marshall is a Vice President, Economic and Northern Affairs, at the Mining Association of Canada (MAC) and works to advance the industry’s understanding of energy, climate change, taxation and…
Electric vehicle sales have surged nearly 90% so far this year and will likely jump by 40% year-on-year in 2022, economist Patricia Mohr tells The Northern Miner. The former vice-president…
Sigma Lithium (TSXV: SGML; NASDAQ: SGML) has begun building the production plant foundation and infrastructure for its Grota do Cirilo lithium project in Brazil, the largest hard rock lithium deposit in…
Growth in renewable energy is set to hit an all-time record this year, but is still falling “well short” of what is necessary to reach net zero emissions by 2050,…
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