Australia battery metals players eye S. Korea market prospects

The Asian country controls a third of the $46 billion market for electric vehicle batteries.

Reuters | December 14, 2021 | 8:03 am

Nobel winner suggests letting EVs power the grid to go green

Rising adoption of battery-powered transport and the further development of vehicle-to-grid, or V2G, systems -- which allow the two-way flow of electricity -- could offer a potentially better option to store renewable energy.

Bloomberg News | December 13, 2021 | 9:03 am

Rio Tinto to write off $2.4bn Oyu Tolgoi loan to Mongolia

Writing off Mongolia's debt would speed up the timeline for when the country can start receiving dividends from the project.

Cecilia Jamasmie | December 13, 2021 | 3:35 am

Sri Lanka shows off giant natural blue sapphire

Sri Lankan authorities on Sunday put on show what they said was the world's largest natural corundum blue sapphire.

Reuters | December 12, 2021 | 10:01 am

UAE’s EGA inks 3-yr Guinea bauxite supply deal with China’s Bosai

China's demand for imported bauxite is set to increase by around 20% to 132 million tonnes in 2022.

Reuters | December 10, 2021 | 7:32 am

Tsingshan starts producing EV battery raw material nickel matte in Indonesia

In the past two weeks, two other Chinese companies have both announced plans to produce 40,000 tonnes per year of matte in Indonesia.

Reuters | December 9, 2021 | 8:12 am

Gold demand in India seen best in a decade in festival quarter

India consumed 446.4 tons of gold in 2020 and purchases were about 360 tons in the first nine months of this year, WGC data shows.

Bloomberg News | December 8, 2021 | 9:58 pm

AIA sells out of almost $10 billion of coal investments

The insurer completed the entire sale of directly-managed equity and fixed income portfolios in October, seven years ahead of its original target.

Bloomberg News | December 7, 2021 | 9:12 pm

RANKED: World’s 10 biggest underground mines by tonnes of ore milled

The ore that contains sufficient valuable mineral to be treated by milling process is what ends up going into the processing plant compared to run of mine ore production.

MINING.com Editor | December 7, 2021 | 11:09 am

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