Uber or Skip? Bronze Age miners had their own food delivery service
Nowadays, the delivery of food and supplies to remote mine sites like Canadian Royalties’ Nunavik nickel project in northern Quebec is...
Vital Metals to become Canada’s first rare earths miner
Australia’s Vital Metals (ASX: VML) is getting ready to kick off mining operations at its Nechalacho rare earths project in Canada’s...
Resolute Mining shares drop 25% on Ghana lease termination
Resolute Mining (LSE: RSG.L) said it is seeking legal advice after its mining lease for the Bibiani gold mine in Ghana was terminated. ...
Top 14 UBS battery metals forecasts after VW teardown
The new UBS report on battery raw materials was laudatory of Volkswagen’s ID.3 after the Swiss investment bank’s so-called Evidence Lab...
Barrick reports strong financials in 2020
Despite the challenges posed by the covid-19 pandemic, Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX) (NYSE: GOLD) reported ending 2020 with one of the...
We may be entering a new commodities supercycle
Rising commodity prices have bank analysts and strategists asking if resurgent demand for raw materials and insufficient supply will...
Lithium prices continue to soar – up 88% in 2021
Lithium prices continue to rise exponentially in China on the back of heavy demand for lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries, the first...
PDAC: Think big, exploration opportunity is huge, says BHP’s Laura Tyler
“From where I sit, the opportunity in front of us is huge,” BHP’s (NYSE: BHP; LSE: BHP; ASX: BHP) chief technical officer Laura Tyler...
Cobalt, nickel free electric car batteries are a runaway success
A year ago, Tesla surprised the electric car industry when it announced some Model 3s made in its Shanghai factory will be equipped with...
Sibanye calls for mega-merger with AngloGold, Gold Fields
Sibanye Stillwater (JSE: SGL) (NYSE: SBGL) said on Monday that South Africa’s top gold miners should merge and create a rival to the...