Its roadmap has major implications for battery metals such as lithium, cobalt, nickel and manganese.

Company is considering listing its shares in Oslo this year after signing a deal with local officials to build the world's first fully electric copper mine in the Arctic.

An analysis by Roskill states that tungsten prices and consumption in the automotive sector may never recover to 2017 levels.

Freyr plans to start a pilot plant near the Arctic Circle in Norway by next year.

Group also proposed minimizing Nornickel's final dividend payment for 2020.

A 200,000-strong Brazilian claimant group failed to resurrect a 5.0 billion pound ($6.9 billion) English lawsuit against the mining giant over the Fundão dam failure.