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Tesla faces higher lithium prices as supplier amends deal

Piedmont will supply an increased 125,000 tonnes of lithium concentrate to Tesla starting in H2 2023 through the end of 2025.

Bloomberg News | January 3, 2023 | 8:27 am

Australia takes serious look at its carbon sequestration potential

Australia’s national science agency assessed 12 nature-based and engineered carbon…

Staff Writer | December 30, 2022 | 9:34 am

Nyrstar’s Port Pirie lead smelter ramps up production

The Port Pirie smelter was shut in October for work…

Reuters | December 28, 2022 | 9:39 am

Visualizing 25 years of lithium production, by country

Global lithium production surpassed 100,000 tonnes for the first time in 2021.

Visual Capitalist - Elements | December 27, 2022 | 10:15 pm

Coal and lithium drive Australian stocks’ outperformance in 2022

The country’s behemoth iron ore miners ended the year on…

Bloomberg News | December 27, 2022 | 9:19 pm

Iron ore price bounces back after sharp fall

Bullish outlook from Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley lifts sentiment.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | February 3, 2021 | 1:54 pm

New Caledonia’s government collapses over independence, nickel unrest

The South Pacific archipelago has been gripped by riots over the sale process of Vale’s local nickel business.

Reuters | February 3, 2021 | 10:10 am

De Beers’ diamond sales beat pre-covid levels

The miner's rough-diamond sales jumped 44% in the first cycle of 2021 from to the same period last year.

Cecilia Jamasmie | February 3, 2021 | 3:48 am

Lithium price in China surges 40% to 18-month high

Heavy demand for new generation LFP batteries lights fire under domestic China lithium carbonate prices boosting Australia spodumene prices in the process.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | February 2, 2021 | 11:08 am

Shaky iron ore market turns to Vale for final piece of supply puzzle

Vale is still looking to return to a capacity of 400 million tonnes, which would see it regain the title of world’s biggest producer.

Bloomberg News | February 2, 2021 | 9:04 am

Global gold output to rise 5.5% in 2021 – report

Gold production is expected to bounce back and increase to 113.9moz this year.

MINING.com Editor | February 1, 2021 | 11:14 am

Karora cuts 9 metres of 19 g/t gold at Larkin discovery at Beta Hunt

The company, which is about halfway through a 6,100-metre drill program at Larkin, hopes to define a resource at the zone this year.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | February 1, 2021 | 5:20 am

Tianqi’s top shareholder to get up to $2.5bn injection

Chengdu Tianqi Industrial Group will receive up 16 billion yuan that may help the miner to pay down debt.

MINING.com Editor | January 29, 2021 | 7:25 am

Queensland’s coal, resource jobs soar

Over 39,000 people were working in Queensland’s coal industry in the last quarter of 2020.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | January 29, 2021 | 6:05 am

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