Ivanhoe Mines promises zero emissions at Kamoa-Kakula

“From the macro point of view, this is not an environment where you’d want to be shorting metals.”

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.

Indonesia state-owned holding Asahan Aluminum, or Inalum, would grab a 41.64% stake in the local unit of Freeport, which increases its current ownership in it to 51%.

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

Although divestment issues are still unresolved, Indonesia hopes to finalize contract talks with Freeport McMoRan Inc over the Grasberg copper mine by June.

“A lot of investors were really badly burned, ourselves included.”

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.

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

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