The Future Minerals Forum recently heard Saudi Arabia is looking to invest its massive capital potential to not only develop its industry, from exploration to downstream battery metal processing.

Copper’s fall from grace among fund players is clear to see in sliding volumes across all three major trading venues, writes Andy Home.

Russian exporters of nickel, steel, aluminum and copper paid extra export taxes in the last five months of 2021.

The company said three weeks ago that nickel output at the smelter in Finland had been stopped due to a slag explosion.

Nickel prices touched $22,935 a tonne on Friday, the highest since 2011.

Ranking of world’s 20 best selling electric cars and their battery metals show automakers grappling with soaring raw material prices.

The government said it will stop using coal for electricity by that year as part of a “fair transition” of its coal regions.