A joint venture valued at $1.5 billion to $2 billion that wants to become Chile’s third lithium producer is in talks with investors to bankroll its project.

The company plans to reduce its Panama workforce to below 1,000 workers from about 1,400 workers.

A rapid expansion of cobalt mining in Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia has output racing ahead of demand.

The rate at which platinum is displacing palladium in the manufacture of autocatalysts is slowing due to the sister metals approaching price parity.

The exports raise hopes that China may be removing the ban imposed after Australian calls for an inquiry into the origin of covid-19.

Fire at nickel smelter on Sulawesi island killed 21 workers.

Cochilco said it was raising the estimate due to "factors like the normalization of monetary policy in the United States."

China's central bank left the medium-term policy rate unchanged on Monday.