DRC concentrate export ban may tighten global copper, cobalt supply

Best performance in three years.

“The dominant union, which represents the majority of workers, is not involved in the action,” an official statement reads.

"Significant surpluses" from next year to decimate prices says second bearish report on electric vehicle battery materials.

The changes to the mining code in Congo, which supplies some 60 percent of the world's cobalt, could have repercussions for consumers around the world.

Last year, a more than month-long strike at Escondida ended with workers opting to extend their previous contract through July 31 of this year instead of replacing it.

The Mayor of the city of Quilpué rejected the proposal.

Royalties paid to the government from cobalt and coltan mining will jump to 10 per cent from 2 per cent.

The blended company will have projects in Ontario and Idaho which, once in operations, could be major cobalt suppliers for EVs makers and high tech firms.

MIT scientists describe fusion power as a potentially "inexhaustible and zero-carbon source of energy."