FPX Nickel makes high-grade, near-surface discovery with first holes at Van target
FPX Nickel (TSXV: FPX) says it has made a significant new nickel discovery with the first two holes it drilled at the Van target at its Decar project, 90 km…
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Vale halts operations at Onça Puma mine after court order
Vale reported today that it has once again halted operations at its Onça Puma nickel mine after Brazil’s state of Pará obtained a court order to reinstate the suspension of…
Pallinghurst raises ownership in Nouveau Monde; takes stake in Talon Metals
The Pallinghurst Group is raising its stake in Nouveau Monde Graphite (TSXV: NOU; NYSE: NMG) and taking an initial stake in Talon Metals (TSX: TLO). Pallinghurst’s graphite subsidiary is increasing…
Noront Resources picks Wyloo bid over BHP
A months-long battle over nickel-copper miner Noront Resources (TSXV: NOT) may have come to an end as the Canadian company said today that it had picked a sweetened bid from Australian mining billionaire Andrew Forrest’s Wyloo Metals, over…
What the energy transition may bring for five battery metals – report
ING Economics has published a new report in which its experts predict what the energy transition might bring for five key metals: copper, aluminum, nickel, cobalt, and lithium. Taking into…
Appetite for ‘green energy metals’ drives deals
Demand for ‘green energy’ metals like copper, nickel, lithium, and cobalt has risen sharply, driven by the global move to lower carbon emissions and electric vehicle makers chasing battery ingredients….
Green Energy Metals Snapshot: Eight companies with large ambitions
Canada is rich with resources needed to fuel the electrification of modern society, and Canadian companies are rich with ideas for finding lithium, nickel, copper, cobalt, and PGMs wherever they…
Tesla inks multi-year nickel supply deal with Prony
Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) has inked a multi-year nickel supply deal with New Caledonia’s Prony Resources, which guarantees the U.S. carmaker about 42,000 tonnes of the metal needed to produce the…
BHP to expand into “tougher jurisdictions” in search of battery metals
BHP (NYSE: BHP; LSE: BHP; ASX: BHP) CEO Mike Henry says the company is ready for a strategic shift out of its geographical, advanced-economies comfort zone into “tougher jurisdictions” as…
US narrows gap with China in race to dominate battery supply chain, report says
The United States is narrowing the gap with China when it comes to the race to dominate the battery value chain, according to BloombergNEF’s second annual Global Lithium-Ion Battery Supply…
International Nickel Study Group forecasts rising nickel demand in 2022
Global primary nickel demand will rise to 2.8 million tonnes this year and to 3 million tonnes next year, up from 2020’s 2.4 million tonnes, according to the International Nickel…
Canada Nickel improves recovery and metallurgical performance at Crawford nickel project
Canada Nickel (TSXV: CNC; US-OTC: CNIKF) has released the results of testing done on samples from its 100%-owned flagship Crawford nickel-cobalt sulphide project in Ontario, about 40 km north of…