Funding allows it to move forward with its Barroso lithium project, slated to be western Europe’s largest mine of the battery metal.

Lawyers for Prateek Gupta said that Trafigura employees had proposed an arrangement to agree contracts for the sale of nickel but in fact to trade other material.

The amount of tin sitting in London Metal Exchange warehouses has more than doubled in the space of a month.

An Invesco survey showed a "substantial share" of central banks were concerned by the precedent that had been set.

Concentration of supply intensified for some critical minerals in 2022, despite US and Europe's efforts to diversify and reduce reliance on China.

Chinese gallium companies have driven most rivals elsewhere out of the market by undercutting them on price over the last decade.