Vulcan Energy, Frankfurt-based Nobian seek to develop lithium plant

Five firms, including BHP, were removed from the Prompt Payment Code, an initiative to speed up settlement of invoices owed to suppliers.

Funds allowed Norgold to both extend Lefa mine’s life and improve efficiencies at the operation.

According to the Responsible Mining Foundation, most of the companies assessed show little or no evidence of efforts to strengthen the gender balance of their leadership and governance teams.

Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology succeeded in creating light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, on a graphene surface.

It is an example of how big companies in the Netherlands and beyond are putting forward their own plans to reduce emissions as they look to ward off the carbon taxes they fear will hammer their businesses.

Two decades ago, governments and utilities around the world began offering above-market rates and contracts to fuel the rise of clean energy, but now these pacts are under attack.

The company has found in BayWa, a Germany agribusiness, a partner that will distribute the fertilizer Sirius plans to produce from its Woodsmith mine in Europe.

China and a quest for battery minerals have injected momentum into a long U.N. process to agree to a law on deep sea mining.

A couple of long-running outages together with curtailments in Europe caused aluminium production outside China to dip 1.4%.