EU pushing China to narrow the scope of metal export controls
The EU wants to make sure that export restrictions on the two metals are based on clear security implications and comply with WTO rules.
The EU wants to make sure that export restrictions on the two metals are based on clear security implications and comply with WTO rules.
While precious metals-focused juniors are working to revive Nevada’s tired Tonopah Silver District, lithium discoveries to the north, west and south of the desert town’s doorstep could again kick the boom-bust local economy into high gear.
The firm aims to double its share of the transoceanic pellets market to 18%.
The reopening of the South Crofty tin mine in Cornwall is part of a wave of mining activity across England’s southwestern tip.
The move underscores the dilemma facing President Xi Jinping as he seeks to counter US efforts to prevent China from accessing the chips needed to dominate technology.
The company was recently authorized to restart drilling at Vizcachitas after fulfilling conditions laid out by an environmental court.
The National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration, the government stockpiling body, may buy about 2,000 tons of cobalt.
Resources are stretched so thin at Brazil’s mining regulator that officials have walked off the job.
The commodities giant will sign an offtake agreement in exchange for helping to fund the lithium processing plant that Eramet is building with China’s Tsingshan.
A deal with Northvolt would underscore Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s ambitions for Canada to capture a sizable piece of the North American EV supply chain.