January 16, 2018

Canadian companies want to extract nickel, vanadium, cobalt from petcoke

They're running a study led by Paul Watkinson, who has investigated the conversion of carbonaceous solids into gaseous and liquid fuels.

January 15, 2018

Canada’s RNC Minerals in talks to fund battery material mine

RNC Minerals in talks with commodity traders, mine operators and financiers to secure $1bn to build world's biggest nickel and cobalt project next year.

January 15, 2018

Cruz commences operations on BC cobalt prospect

“We are very pleased to start up operations in BC... [w]e plan to be operational on multiple projects throughout 2018," the president of Cruz stated.

January 12, 2018

How China is locking up critical resources in the US’s own backyard

China’s global resource grab, and the ramifications for the rest of the world, are on my radar screen. Are they on yours? If not, maybe they should be.

January 12, 2018

Cobalt and 11% yields lure risk-takers to this Canadian miner

Strengthening commodity prices have spurred investors to push Sherritt’s bonds up, but skepticism is still reflected in the yield of nearly 11 percent.

January 11, 2018

The raw materials that fuel the Green Revolution

A full green shift still requires plenty of natural resources- they're just not the traditional fossil fuels we're used to.

January 11, 2018

BHP is building an EV hub it doesn’t want to keep

The good luck for BHP is that only about 40 to 45 percent of existing nickel mine supply is suitable for processing into a battery-grade chemical product.

January 10, 2018

Pancontinental in the quest for “blue gold”

The company is looking in Canada, the world's No. 3 cobalt producer.

January 10, 2018

Electric cars market threatened by potential cobalt tax hike in Congo

The nation, responsible for about two thirds of global output, plans to increase tax on cobalt to 5% from 2%.

January 9, 2018

Congo’s Gécamines urges Gov’t to revise 16-year-old mining code

The World Bank-supported mining legislation was introduced to attract investment into copper and cobalt projects from global miners including Glencore Plc, Freeport-McMoRan Inc. and China Molybdenum Co. Gécamines claims country…