BRUSSELS, May 16 (Reuters) – The European Union will only meet ambitious targets to reduce its reliance on China and other countries for critical materials by rapidly scaled-up financing and accelerated permitting, according to the […]
OBIRA ISLAND, Indonesia — On a remote island close to where the Pacific meets the Indian Ocean sits one of the first refineries built specifically to support the world’s transition away from fossil fuels. Rocks unearthed […]
Accompanied by tinny taped music and overall-clad workers, Rio Tinto Group executives and Mongolian officials gathered a kilometer beneath the freezing Gobi Desert earlier this year to open one of the world’s richest underground copper […]
Coal may be a viable source of rare earth elements, according to a study, critical in the manufacturing of high-demand products like batteries and solar panels. The Clean Coal Technology research group at the University […]
As of May 2, 2023, copper has become a highly coveted commodity in the mining industry, causing larger companies to seek out smaller players, particularly those with copper discoveries on the horizon. This is due to copper […]
Authored by Alex Kimani via OilPrice.com, Physical nickel markets have become oversupplied in 2023. A new wave of supply from Indonesia has put prices under pressure. International Nickel Study Group: the nickel market will face […]
Johannesburg, South Africa – “This mine is a silent killer,” said Tiny Dlamini at Snake Park in Soweto, pointing at Johannesburg’s largest abandoned gold mine dump that looms over the impoverished settlement. During over a […]
Europe has been weaning itself off Russian crude, refined products, and natural gas in the wake of the war in Ukraine. But the dependency on Russia’s vast nuclear industry has been more complicated. Russia, through […]
– Tesla, plus French and German companies, all linked to massive nickel mining plans A unique uncontacted tribe could be wiped out by a massive Indonesian project to produce nickel for electric car batteries. A […]
Multiple reports of a looming copper shortage have popped up in the past few months, as demand for copper is increasing. Political unrest in Peru the second largest supplier of copper in the world led […]
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