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The lithium market is entering 2026 with a deceptively calm price signal. Chinese battery-grade lithium carbonate has been consolidating around 140,000–145,750 yuan per tonne, equivalent to…
Your phone battery has a global story. Lithium, cobalt, nickel and graphite can come from different countries, while refining and battery manufacturing often happen elsewhere. Here's…
Copper’s rally has reached a policy-driven inflection point. The metal climbed to a record near $14,854 per tonne on Sept. 9, according to Bloomberg and TradingKey,…
Diamond drilling at a copper-gold exploration site in British Columbia. Kodiak Copper Corp. reported its strongest-ever drill intersection at the Ketchan zone of the MPD copper-gold…
Representative cobalt processing facility with drying equipment and bagged concentrate in Central Africa. A peer-reviewed study estimates that between 2,000 and 5,000 tonnes of natural uranium…
China’s lithium carbonate market has settled into a narrow range as seasonal purchasing from battery and cathode producers meets a steady recovery in domestic output and…
St Barbara has agreed to sell its remaining interest in the New Simberi Gold Project and associated Tabar Islands exploration licences in Papua New Guinea to…
Furnaces and conveyors inside a ferronickel processing plant. The European Commission is preparing to issue a statement of objections to MMG’s proposed acquisition of Anglo American’s…
Gold processing infrastructure at a modern mine site. Gold and silver prices fell sharply Thursday after a hotter U.S. producer-price report and a surge in oil…
Brazilian nickel mine and processing infrastructure surrounded by lateritic terrain and forest. MMG’s proposed $500 million purchase of Anglo American’s Brazilian nickel assets is facing another…
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