The U.S. Department of Energy’s Critical Materials Institute is giving Toronto-based junior First Cobalt (TSXV: FCC; US-OTC: FTSSF) US$600,000 over two years for research on mineral processing techniques for the…
Vale (NYSE: VALE), the world’s no.1 nickel producer, is evaluating a potential spinoff of its base metals division as part of the miner’s growing interest in the electric vehicles (EV)…
Proxy adviser Glass Lewis, one of Glencore’s (LSE: GLEN) top shareholders, is pushing investors to vote against the company’s plans to pay its new chief executive Gary Nagle up to…
Robert Friedland, the founder and executive co-chairman of Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) gave a keynote presentation at this year’s virtual CRU World Copper Conference. Filmed from his home…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.24% to finish the week at 33,153.21 and the S&P 500 fell 0.77% to 3,913.10. Spot gold dropped US$3 per oz., or 0.17%, to US$1,730.30…
As the world moves away from fossil fuels, battery metals are in high demand, especially with a shortage of supply from low-geopolitical risk jurisdictions. For instance, earlier this year, Canada…
UEX (TSX: UEX; US-OTC: UEXCF) has reported drill results from the Michael Lake zone on its 100%-owned West Bear cobalt-nickel deposit in the eastern Athabasca basin of Saskatchewan, about 740 km…
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has officially begun operations at Entreprise Générale du Cobalt (EGC), a state-owned company with monopoly rights to the purchase and sale of the…
Vale (NYSE: VALE) has concluded the sale of its nickel and cobalt operations in New Caledonia, a French territory in the Pacific, to a consortium called Prony, which includes commodity…
As First Cobalt (TSXV: FCC; US-OTC: FTSSF) readies for a restart of its Ontario refinery next year, the company has announced a five-year offtake agreement with London-based metals trader Stratton…
An analysis by Roskill states that Canada’s access to key battery raw materials gives the country an advantage when it comes to cell and module production.
Within the next few years, Talon Metals’(TSX: TLO) Tamarack nickel-copper-cobalt project in Minnesota, 210 km north of Minneapolis and 89 km west of Duluth, could be the only source of high-grade…
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