Lithium King crowned in dictatorship sees $3.5bn fortune at risk
Chile's constitutional rewrite may create a national lithium company that would compete with SQM, in which Julio Ponce Lerou is a top shareholder.
Chile's constitutional rewrite may create a national lithium company that would compete with SQM, in which Julio Ponce Lerou is a top shareholder.
Shares of E3 Lithium surged over 30% on news of the Imperial Oil investment.
The company has not been directly targeted by Western sanctions imposed on Moscow after it sent thousands of troops into Ukraine on February 24.
The Grota do Cirilo project in Minas Gerais state is on track to begin producing early next year.
A judge scheduled a conciliation hearing between the company and its creditors on Tuesday as the parties offered competing debt restructuring plans.
In submissions to the inquiry last year, top miners acknowledged that sexual harassment is rife at mining camps in Western Australia.
Iron ore lost almost a quarter of its value in a dizzying eight-day plunge through Monday.
An agreement may not be easy, according to Reuters sources, due to Samarco's liabilities related to its 2015 disaster in the city of Mariana.
The price may have collapsed by 40% in the space of two months but LME tin has found a floor at what has historically been a hard ceiling, writes Andy Home.
A raft of supportive policy measures from Beijing over the last couple of months have failed to result in persistent price gains.