Value of battery metals in newly-sold electric cars around the world jumps despite slump in lithium, cobalt, graphite prices.

LOI follows an agreement with Arafura Resources to process work at USA Rare Earth's Colorado pilot plant, which opened in June.

The company has also reassigned nearly half of its Holt Complex workforce.

Almost half of White & Case survey respondents see increased taxation as the way resource nationalism is most likely to manifest itself in the wake of covid-19.