Dec 26, 2024 · Modest price recovery in offing. China’s lithium chemical inventories have effectively doubled throughout 2024. This build-up is most pronounced in lithium hydroxide, as evidenced by the ...

Jan 2, 2025 · Cobalt prices have plunged 72% since hitting a peak in April 2022, and shares in Australia-based Jervois have slid. The price of another Jervois product, nickel, has fallen by more than half over ...

Dec 29, 2024 · By 2030, McKinsey estimates that worldwide demand for passenger cars in the BEV segment will grow sixfold from 2021 through 2030, with annual unit sales increasing to roughly 28 million from 4.5 ...

In May, Comex copper hit an all-time intraday high of nearly $5.20 a pound or $11,500 per tonne. Positioning went to such net lengths that dollar trading volumes scaled $100 billion (twice the Dow ...

Jan 6, 2025 · The business outlook for 2025 looks “very bad,” Korea Zinc said in a statement. Increased competition for ore from Chinese smelters has significantly reduced the treatment charges that miners ...

Jan 2, 2025 · Hudbay Minerals’ (TSX, NYSE: HBM) proposed 85,000-tonne-per-year Copper World project in Arizona is now fully permitted for development after receiving all three key state-level permits.

Dec 3, 2024 · Whether the incoming Trump administration will quickly follow through with 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico or whether the surprisingly stiff trade sanctions are more of a negotiating ...

Jan 6, 2025 · The figure is up from 2023’s 1.325 million tonnes and puts the miner on track to its long-term goal of producing 1.7 million tonnes of fine copper annually by the end of the decade, chairman ...

Jan 7, 2025 · Thacker Pass’ estimated measured and indicated mineral resource estimate now totals 44.5 million tonnes LCE at an average grade of 2,230 ppm of lithium, a 177% increase since the latest ...

Dec 22, 2024 · From 2025 onward, global gold production is forecast to fall. Reserves will deplete, ore grades will decline and aging mines will close, CRU Consulting gold and base metals asset analyst Oliver ...