Nickel Top Stories

Once ‘green’ plug-in hybrid cars suddenly look like dinosaurs in Europe

European automakers are dividing over whether to fight for PHEVs, or spend their financial and political capital accelerating the leap to fully electric vehicles.

Reuters | April 12, 2021 | 7:18 am

Nornickel expects full output to resume at flooded mine this month

The Oktyabrsky mine will resume full production by the end…

Reuters | April 12, 2021 | 7:00 am

Environmentalists call on Norway to stop plans for deep-sea mining

Six environmental organisations, including the World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace,…

Reuters | April 12, 2021 | 6:56 am

The need for a battery gold rush in US

US automakers are finally making bold commitments to electrify their…

MINING.com Editor | April 9, 2021 | 11:57 am

Nornickel to minimise 2020 final dividend, considers buyback

Company will minimise its final dividend for 2020 to fund…

Reuters | April 9, 2021 | 8:26 am

Cobalt outlook bullish through 2022 and beyond, ERG CEO says

Benedikt Sobotka said that the surging price of the metal, which rose by 119% in 2021, was giving a very clear message: the market is severely short of cobalt, a key ingredient in the batteries that power EVs.

Fastmarkets | January 31, 2022 | 3:02 pm

This chart says industrial metals prices have far to fall

Unless there’s been a major decoupling of copper, zinc, nickel, aluminum prices and Chinese manufacturing activity, declines of as much as 40% may be in the offing.

Frik Els | January 31, 2022 | 2:48 pm

It’s not all one-way traffic for China’s EV makers

Persistent hikes in raw material costs have been weighing on automakers for a while now.

Bloomberg News | January 31, 2022 | 7:56 am

Vulcan inks binding lithium hydroxide supply deal with LG Energy

Vulcan, which aims to produce lithium hydroxide from Germany's Upper Rhine Valley, has already inked supply deals with Volkswagen and Stellantis among others.

Reuters | January 30, 2022 | 3:44 pm