MINING PEOPLE: First Cobalt, NorthWest Copper, Sailfish Royalty, Solaris
Key moves in the mining sector.
Key moves in the mining sector.
The US government is working to help American miners and battery makers expand into Canada, part of a strategy to boost regional production of minerals used to make electric vehicles and counter Chinese dominance.
Urbix has developed a spheroidization process to make natural anode-grade graphite compete with synthetic anodes.
Tsingshan uses nickel ore to make stainless steel raw material nickel pig iron (NPI) in Indonesia.
Argentina has huge untapped deposits of lithium, copper, gold and silver.
Canada can leverage its mining and processing expertise as well as its natural resource endowment and its world-leading environmental, social, and governance credentials.
Project in New South Wales is one of the largest nickel/cobalt deposits in the world and one of the largest and highest grade accumulations of scandium ever discovered.
Vision Blue has also invested in Ferro-Alloy Resources, which is developing a vanadium project in Kazakhstan.
Company is stepping up its game to become the world’s biggest electric-car maker with a plan to build six battery factories in Europe.
Roskill forecasts some Tier 2 battery makers will boost their standing and reach Tier 1 status in the next 2-5 years.