Supercycle or bull market?
Soaring prices this month for copper and iron ore are leading some people to think that we are on the verge of a new supercycle. But as our new reporter…
Nickel
A realistic path for improved carbon performance in mining
The demand for improved environmental and social governance (ESG) continues to intensify. Of the many issues that ESG covers, it is carbon emissions that are receiving the most attention due…
Chinese EV makers may be looking at western markets, CRU report says
China, the country leading global sales of new energy vehicles (NEVs), not only will maintain its market position accounting for half of all expected global NEV during the next decade,…
Mining legacy processes setting the industry behind in sustainability targets – report
A report commissioned by Glasgow-based engineering company the Weir Group warns that the total amount of power used in hard rock mining is equal to 12 exajoules per year or…
Metals price rally could hamper switch to green energy — IEA
Soaring metals prices may be good for miners, but they risk the ongoing transition to clean energy as batteries, solar panels and wind turbines need considerable amounts of copper, nickel,…
US markets mixed, April 26-30
The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.50% to finish the week at 33,874.85 and the S&P 500 rose 0.02% to 4,181.17. Spot gold declined by US$7.80 per oz., or 0.44%,…
Manganese, nickel, silicon – main focus of battery research
A new whitepaper by Roskill that examines the potential of patent analysis to understand the lithium-ion battery technological landscape found the market trend is decidedly leaning towards nickel, cobalt, manganese…
Two charts show why investors are right to love mining streaming companies
Despite keen investor interest, streaming and royalty deals still only make up a fraction of overall debt and equity financing in the mining industry, accounting for just 1%–3% from 2017…
Deep-sea mining tests resume as lost robot rescued
Belgium’s Global Sea Mineral Resources (GSR) has resumed tests that could lead to the mining of battery minerals from the Pacific Ocean floor after it managed to recover a robot…
Report looks at recycling battery metals to meet rising demand
A new report suggests that recycled metals could meet a significant part of the rising demand from electric vehicles (EVs), decreasing some of the need for new mine supply. The…
Vale mulls base metals spinoff to tap EV market
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)…
The West needs to level the playing field to compete with China
Access to the raw materials of the new green economy is increasingly a high-stakes chess match along geopolitical lines dividing the East and the West. China controls access to the…