High metals prices expected to cushion majors' weaker production and rising costs.

The facility will make separator film for lithium-ion batteries.

alled the “rock-to-metal ratio,” the new metric indicates how much ore and waste must be mined, moved and processed to produce a given unit of a mineral commodity.

Gold's reversal comes amid another rally in the dollar index.

Endeavour Mining applies ample cash reserves to optimize and expand gold production.

The popularity of electric vehicles has driven prices for battery metals sharply higher, even sparking fears of shortages of materials like lithium, cobalt and nickel.