Rio Tinto CEO says copper outlook ‘challenged’ in near termCopper prices are down more than 20% this year as covid-related shutdowns in China, surging power prices in Europe and ongoing inflation in the U.S. and elsewhere hurt demand.Bloomberg News | September 20, 2022 | 3:56 pm
Tesla battery fire at PG&E site shuts iconic California highwayCalifornia’s largest utility said the fire involved a single Tesla…Bloomberg News | September 20, 2022 | 1:06 pm
Perpetua Resources gets DOD funding to study antimony production from Stibnite gold projectCompany to evaluate whether antimony from its project in Idaho…Staff Writer | September 20, 2022 | 11:12 am
Nickel prices: How did we get here and what comes next? To understand today’s pricing, we have to look back to pre-2007, when there was a squeeze on nickel prices. ANTHONY MILEWSKI - Special to The Northern Miner | March 4, 2021 | 9:40 am
Gold price slump led to $4.6bn monthly loss in ETFs Global ETFs have retraced the last six months of overall inflows over the past four months, the WGC says. MINING.com Editor | March 4, 2021 | 9:16 am
Five Eyes alliance urged to forge ties with Greenland to secure minerals Greenland has huge deposits of rare earths. Reuters | March 4, 2021 | 8:16 am
US broke record on energy storage deployment in Q4-2020 Over 2,000 megawatt-hours of new energy storage systems were brought online in Q4-2020 in the United States. MINING.COM Staff Writer | March 4, 2021 | 6:13 am
Cyanide monitoring technology gets big funding in the US CyanoGuard is a digital platform that enables rapid toxin detection and allows gold miners to reduce cyanide use by 15-20%. MINING.COM Staff Writer | March 4, 2021 | 6:11 am
Global copper smelting edges lower in February due to Chinese holiday The decline in China was partially offset by gains in Europe and North America. Reuters | March 4, 2021 | 2:09 am
Energy storage boom to propel zinc battery demand, industry association says Annual demand for zinc in batteries was only 600 tonnes in 2020 but that figure is projected to rise to 77,500 tonnes in 2030 Reuters | March 3, 2021 | 4:48 pm
Rare earth, uranium miners benefit from EV mania and dash of ESG Uranium sector supply/demand balance is the tightest we’ve seen since pre-Fukushima, analyst says. Bloomberg News | March 3, 2021 | 9:06 am
Aluminum price surges to 9-year high on Chinese supply concerns Investors were jittery ahead of China’s annual meeting of parliament, where the country will announce goals for 2021. MINING.COM Staff Writer | March 3, 2021 | 8:53 am