Albemarle taps BHP veteran Udd as next CEO
Albemarle (NYSE: ALB), the world’s largest lithium producer, has named BHP (ASX, LSE, NYSE: BHP) executive Ragnar Udd as its next CEO as surging energy-storage demand tightens the battery-metal market….
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SW US mine rush collides with water limits
Washington’s push to mine more copper and lithium in the U.S. Southwest is running into a harder limit than permitting: whether projects can secure enough water to operate for decades…
SW US CEO chat: Gunnison Copper seeks government cash and partner
Gunnison Copper’s (TSX: GCU; US-OTC: GCUMF) role in helping reduce U.S. dependence on imported red metal now turns more on how it’s financed than on the rocks in Arizona. Backed…
Tungsten surge transforms Northcliff’s Sisson economics
Northcliff Resources’ (TSX: NCF; US-OTC: NCFFF) new feasibility study for the Sisson tungsten-molybdenum project in New Brunswick puts its post-tax value at more than four times the cost to build…
Podcast: Gold dealers face ‘credit crunch’, ft CPM Group’s Jeffrey Christian
This week’s episode features Jeffrey Christian, managing partner at CPM Group, in conversation with host Adrian Pocobelli on the broader macroeconomic factors affecting the gold market. Christian discusses the implications…
Eldorado eyes bigger McIlvenna Bay copper mill
Eldorado Gold (TSX: ELD; NYSE: EGO) is studying a 43% expansion of its McIlvenna Bay processing plant and a new silver-lead circuit as the Saskatchewan copper-zinc-gold-silver mine ramps towards commercial…
China’s biggest lithium mine loses licence
Analysts nearly halve CATL’s Jianxiawo output forecast for the year as environmental hurdles delay a sustained return to production.
Sponsored video: AME urges tax fix to advance projects
A gap in Canada’s exploration tax incentives is making it harder to finance the studies needed to turn mineral discoveries into mines, the Vancouver-based Association for Mineral Exploration says in…
BHP commercial chief exits amid China iron ore strain
BHP (ASX, LSE, NYSE: BHP) chief commercial officer Rag Udd will leave the world’s largest miner at the end of January, opening a key leadership vacancy as China intensifies pressure…
SW US CEO chat: Hudbay builds copper giant
Hudbay Minerals (TSX, NYSE: HBM) says it can build two of the largest planned U.S. copper mines without issuing equity, thanks to a financing package backed by offtaker Mitsubishi, streamer…
Editorial: The money is already here
Despite a sharp escalation in the Canada-U.S. trade dispute, global investors are already voting with their wallets ahead of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Sept. 14-15 investment summit in Toronto. Total…
Drone wars deepen West’s critical minerals squeeze
Drones deployed in the Russia-Ukraine war account for an estimated 4% of global germanium demand, adding pressure to a small critical minerals market dominated by China, according to BMO Capital…