Canada to give Umicore up to C$1bn for new battery components plantThe facility, in the Ontario town of Loyalist Township, will manufacture cathode active materials and precursor cathode active materials.Reuters | October 16, 2023 | 1:45 pm
US, EU business groups push for steel deal, minerals drive at summitThe US Chamber of Commerce and BusinessEurope made the call…Reuters | October 16, 2023 | 7:43 am
Top miners, academics partner to seek new ways to discover sedimentary copperKupferschiefer project aims to revisit archive geological data and reinterpret…Staff Writer | October 16, 2023 | 6:42 am
German minister pursuing hydrogen in Namibia, South Africa Minister Robert Habeck is visiting Namibia and South Africa to secure new energy resources for Europe’s biggest economy. Bloomberg News | December 4, 2022 | 10:14 am
HSBC resigns as LME member after exiting industrial metals The bank was a small player in industrial metals, but told Reuters in July 2020 that returns were too low to justify continuing the business. Reuters | December 2, 2022 | 9:54 am
Volkswagen searches for battery cell plant sites in Canada The German carmaker's first battery cell factory in North America would help VW expand its battery business outside Europe. Cecilia Jamasmie | December 2, 2022 | 3:42 am
Airbus says to decouple from Russian titanium ‘in months’ The European Union has so far avoided banning Russian commodities other than steel and coal, and titanium remains exempt from restrictions. Reuters | December 1, 2022 | 8:59 pm
BMW invests in low carbon copper firm Jetti Jetti has the technology to extract more copper from low-grade resources and produce metal with a low carbon footprint. Reuters | December 1, 2022 | 8:08 am
JPMorgan joins HSBC as vault custodian for top gold ETF The lender will now act as an additional custodian for the SPDR Gold Trust, according to a statement from the World Gold Council. Bloomberg News | December 1, 2022 | 7:28 am
CME cobalt contract use soars above LME as big players join Consumers, producers, commodity traders, brokers and banks are backing the CME's cash-settled contract as they want a liquid instrument to hedge cobalt. Reuters | December 1, 2022 | 7:23 am
Investors with $30 trillion to push companies on human rights, social issues Plan to focus first on metals & mining, renewables sectors. Reuters | December 1, 2022 | 7:08 am
Rare earths ‘spill the tea’ on how deep magma eruptions initiate Researchers found huge magma eruptions can initiate deeper below the earth's surface than previously believed. Staff Writer | December 1, 2022 | 7:07 am