Rio Tinto’s Q2 iron ore shipments miss after May train derailment The world's largest producer of iron ore shipped 80.3 million tons of the steel-making commodity in the quarter. Reuters | July 15, 2024 | 3:32 pm
Chile rejects Tianqi’s appeal for vote in SQM-Codelco lithium deal Chile's financial regulator had allowed a planned lithium joint venture between SQM and Codelco to proceed without a vote by SQM shareholders. Reuters | July 15, 2024 | 2:08 pm
Portugal’s mining strategy may favour copper over lithium Portugal already has the largest copper mine in the European Union, operated by Lundin Mining. Reuters | July 15, 2024 | 8:41 am
Iron ore price extends gains on China stimulus hopes A highly anticipated third plenum that started from Monday will outline efforts to promote advanced manufacturing. Reuters | July 15, 2024 | 8:04 am
Rio Tinto to pursue development of solar farm for WA iron ore ops The solar farm could displace up to 11% of natural gas currently used for generation across Rio's integrated mining operations in the Pilbara. Reuters | July 15, 2024 | 7:09 am
US approaches Indonesia for multinational critical mineral partnership Jakarta has asked Washington for a critical mineral trade deal similar to the US deal with Japan. Reuters | July 15, 2024 | 7:03 am
Europe needs way to price critical minerals independently of China, group says Oversupply and weak prices of materials such as lithium, cobalt and rare earths are dampening cash flows of Western start-ups. Reuters | July 15, 2024 | 6:55 am
Liontown signs new deal to supply spodumene to China The short-term deal is to ship 100,000 dry metric tonnes of spodumene concentrate to Beijing Sinomine over 10 months. Reuters | July 14, 2024 | 3:37 pm
Column: After another boom and bust, where next for lithium? There was a similar boom-bust cycle in 2016-2017 but the difference this time is that no-one seems to be expecting a speedy recovery. Reuters | July 14, 2024 | 8:35 am
Polish miner found alive after more than 48 hours trapped underground State-run news channel TVP Info reported that the miner was conscious when rescuers reached him. Reuters | July 13, 2024 | 3:35 pm
Iron ore price heads for weekly fall on profit-taking ahead of key China meeting Iron ore prices are expected to remain under pressure from dwindling demand in the short term. Reuters | July 12, 2024 | 9:49 am
Weak market for critical minerals seen dampening Western efforts to counter China Lithium price has tumbled by more than 80% since the beginning of 2023. Reuters | July 12, 2024 | 7:15 am
