Strong EV sales will buoy battery metal prices next year
Electric vehicle sales have surged nearly 90% so far this year and will likely jump by 40% year-on-year in 2022, economist Patricia Mohr tells The Northern Miner. The former vice-president…
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Sigma Lithium kicks off construction of largest hard rock project in the Americas
Sigma Lithium (TSXV: SGML; NASDAQ: SGML) has begun building the production plant foundation and infrastructure for its Grota do Cirilo lithium project in Brazil, the largest hard rock lithium deposit in…
Renewables adoption speed still too slow to limit climate crisis — IEA
Growth in renewable energy is set to hit an all-time record this year, but is still falling “well short” of what is necessary to reach net zero emissions by 2050,…
More than US$2 trillion investment needed to meet IEA hydrogen targets
More than US$2 trillion of investment would be required in equipment and infrastructure to sustain the accelerating global momentum towards establishing hydrogen as a competitive element of a net-zero carbon…
Exploration Projects to Watch Snapshot: Eight companies on the lookout for new deposits
Mining companies are scouring the globe to find new deposits and future mines. Here’s a list of eight companies hunting for base and precious metals around the world. AURION RESOURCES…
Canada Nickel expands footprint in Ontario with 13 new properties
Canada Nickel Company (TSXV: CNC) has concluded 18 separate transactions resulting in the outright acquisition or earn-in to 13 additional properties within a 95 km radius of the company’s flagship…
Canada’s Saskatchewan adds lithium to mining portfolio
Prairie Lithium, a private lithium resource and technology developer situated in the heart of Saskatchewan’s resource-rich Williston Basin, reached a milestone this week as it finished drilling the province’s first…
BHP extends Noront bid deadline amid talks with Wyloo
BHP (NYSE: BHP; LSE: BHP; ASX: BHP) has extended the deadline for Noront Resources’ (TSXV: NOT) investors to accept or refuse its bid from November 16 to the end of…
For the world to hit net zero, global mining industry needs to ramp up capex
The global mining industry may need to nearly double its annual capital expenditure (capex) if the world is to cut its climate-changing carbon pollution to net zero by 2050, according…
Neal “the deal” Froneman is having a helluva year
Neal Froneman seems laid-back but he’s a man in a hurry. The CEO of Sibanye-Stillwater, the largest primary producer of platinum, second-largest primary producer of palladium and a top-tier gold…
Orford Mining partners with Wyloo Metals to explore West Raglan in Quebec
Well before Wyloo Metals began its fight with BHP (NYSE: BHP; LSE: BHP; ASX: BHP) for Noront Resources (TSXV: NOT), the Australian company signed a definitive agreement with Toronto-based junior…
Ganfeng Lithium lands fresh three-year supply deal with Tesla
Ganfeng Lithium, China’s No.1 producer of the battery metal, has signed a new contract with Tesla to supply the electric vehicles maker with battery-grade lithium hydroxide products for three years…