The sale would not affect Piedmont's joint venture or offtake agreement with Sayona's business unit, Sayona Quebec.

Annual production will be 300,000 t/y of concentrate over a 21-year life for the mine.

China’s overseas investment in metals and mining as part of its Belt and Road Initiative surged by 158% last year, hitting $19.4 billion with energy transition metals the main focus.

The Democratic Republic of Congo's state miner is broadening a push to extract more from its copper and cobalt joint ventures

The Philippines and Indonesia are the world’s biggest suppliers of nickel.

Australia is throwing a lifeline to its under pressure nickel mining sector, but the solution on offer is more of a band aid than the needed major surgery, the carving of the global nickel industry into green and dirty.

A 60% slump in cobalt prices over the last two years has exposed the fragility in Washington’s efforts to bolster supplies of critical minerals.

Horizonte Minerals is warning that it needs a whole new financing package to restart its nickel project in northern Brazil.