Copper fees plunge close to zero in test for China’s smelters

Last month, Reuters reported that JSW Steel had slowed down the process to buy a stake in Teck.

Cobalt is among battery materials that are suffering sharp price declines from rising global output this year.

Analysts are watching mispricing in biodiversity and natural capital risks in sectors such as mining, agriculture, cattle production, paper and packaging.

Solar and wind are changing the US economy faster than methods can be devised to capture their impact.

Zeeshan Syed, a former Alberta Energy Regulator executive who was engulfed in a public sector spending scandal in Alberta welcomed two Liberal cabinet ministers to the Thunder Bay site of his junior mining company’s proposed lithium refinery.

Capex in Canada’s mining industry increased by 14% to $13.5 billion last year.

The federal government last year launched a Canadian critical minerals strategy, backed by C$3.8 billion.

Top buyers of graphite from China include Japan, the United States, South Korea and India.

Five major cobalt suppliers attended meetings held in Beijing this week to discuss prices and volumes of the purchases.