Two companies mine 85% of all boron. China holds a near monopoly on downstream processing. Now a California mine wants to break open this opaque market.
Proposals to soften the impact of surging power prices will not shield metals producers from further production cuts and job losses, industry groups say.
The European Commission's focus on future-looking metals seems to have blind-sided it to the older metals that are also required to decarbonize, writes Andy Home.