Union leaders urge striking Vale Sudbury workers to reject latest offer
The 2,500 workers at the mine walked off the job on June 1, complaining about plans to cut health and medical benefits for retirees as well as minimal wage increases.
The 2,500 workers at the mine walked off the job on June 1, complaining about plans to cut health and medical benefits for retirees as well as minimal wage increases.
The shouting will resume on Sept. 6, when the nine ring-dealing members of the LME take their red leather seats after more than a year's coronavirus-induced break.
BloombergNEF forecasts global sales of zero-emission cars rising to 70% of the market by 2040, thus making demand for battery metals soar.
Deep-sea mining would extract cobalt, copper, nickel, and manganese from nodules which pepper the sea floor at depths of 4-6 kilometres.
“If we came from Mars and we were sent in our flying saucer to orbit the Earth to find copper, we would definitely go to Katanga in the southern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo as the richest place on the planet for copper."
The ratings agency has released new ESG issuer profile and credit impact scores for the global metals and mining sector.
The floor was closed in March 2020 for the first time since World War II to allow for the social distancing needed to deal with covid-19.
The company is planning to build a 1 million tonnes per year aluminum smelter with Huafon Group at its industrial park on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
Ganfeng will set up a joint venture company in the city of Fengcheng for its latest plant, which will convert spodumene into lithium battery materials.
Battery minerals represented less than 3% of the top 40 miners' total revenue in 2020.