We’re never going to mine the asteroid belt: Fickling Humanity’s failure to exploit extraterrestrial ore reserves isn’t a sign that we lack imagination. Bloomberg Opinion | December 22, 2020 | 10:06 am
SQM signs 8-year lithium deal with LG Energy Solution Contract will supply about 55,000 metric tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent. Reuters | December 22, 2020 | 7:50 am
Trafigura’s Congo artisanal cobalt project to end, replaced by industrial mining Mutoshi is one of several projects in the Congo aiming to regulate artisanal cobalt mining. Reuters | December 17, 2020 | 1:08 pm
A tale of two crises – metals in the year of covid-19 It’s been a tumultuous year for industrial metal markets, both the worst of times and the best of times. Reuters | December 17, 2020 | 8:22 am
Metso Outotec to modernize Norilsk Nickel’s smelting line Metso has been awarded a landmark contract to modernize one smelting line at Nadezhda metallurgical plant in Russia. Canadian Mining Journal Staff | December 17, 2020 | 5:50 am
First Cobalt secures C$10m public funding for refinery The refinery would become the sole producer of refined cobalt in North America. MINING.COM Staff Writer | December 16, 2020 | 9:56 am
Karora shares up on new results in Western Australia Company announced a a 334% increase in consolidated gold Proven and Probable Mineral Reserves for its Beta Hunt and Higginsville operations in Western Australia. MINING.COM Staff Writer | December 16, 2020 | 8:31 am
Base metals get supercharged thanks to China rebound Industrial metals are well on their way to being among the top performers of 2020. Frank Holmes - U.S. Global Investors | December 15, 2020 | 10:57 am
Eramet, BASF target electric vehicles with nickel, cobalt project The companies are to study the development of a high-pressure acid leaching (HPAL) plant in Weda Bay, Indonesia. Reuters | December 15, 2020 | 9:59 am