MINING.COM’s ranking of world’s biggest miners welcomes the first Indonesian company to the top tier and Perth as the city hosting the greatest number on the list.
A little-publicized clause in the US Inflation Reduction Act has companies scrambling to recycle electric vehicle batteries in North America.
The proposal follows the decision of state-owned miner Codelco to close its Ventanas smelter for environmental reasons.
Other names circulating include internal candidates Nicolás Rivera and Mauricio Barraza, from the north and centre-south divisions.
Billion-dollar deal that would have seen MinRes acquire a stake in downstream assets in China owned by Albemarle.
According to the Energy Transitions Commission, it will require production of up to 6.5 billion tonnes of materials cumulatively between 2022 and 2050.
The need for more and better infrastructure around the world will only get bigger over time, widening the trillion-dollar gap that already exists between planned investment and the amount needed.
Governments have increasingly restricted or banned mineral exports in a bid to boost processing and retain more of the gains.
Shipments were hurt by a train derailment during the reporting period, while the miner also flagged concerns about a global economic slowdown.
It seemed graphite — the anode material used in EV batteries — was set to follow in lithium’s wake having been ignored by investors throughout last year’s lithium-buying mania.