Commodities / Industrial Metals

May 28, 2020 at 09:00

A global copper surplus currently in the making is expected to get worse over the next 18 months as market disruptions have created greater uncertainty in the factors affecting supply…

May 11, 2020 at 10:00

Production of so-called battery metals, such as graphite, lithium and cobalt, will have to increase by nearly 500% by 2050 to meet the growing demand for clean energy technologies, the World…

Apr 24, 2020 at 16:00

EVs may get support from general stimulus measures to revive the world economy, particularly in Germany and China where auto manufactures and specifically EVs are a focus of government industrial policy. 

Apr 14, 2020 at 12:00

Demand for Lithium-ion batteries has suffered from the coronavirus pandemic, but despite the massive slowdown in EV sales, this type of battery remains highly popular

Apr 03, 2020 at 10:00

China’s electric vehicle boom is slowing, and battery metals producers are going to feel the pain in both the short and long term

Mar 12, 2020 at 14:00

A research team is close to patenting a new technique to extract lithium from brine that could revolutionize the lithium extraction process

Mar 12, 2020 at 10:00

Copper and iron ore prices have held up surprisingly well as markets in the West belatedly come to grips with the coronavirus pandemic

Mar 09, 2020 at 12:00

Chile’s Codelco, the world’s top copper producer, saw output fall once again in January to 118,600 tonnes, a 6.8% drop when compared to the same month in 2019, amid a…

Feb 11, 2020 at 12:00

BHP is now officially the world’s top copper miner, but it may struggle to hang on to that position as the competition heats up

Jan 30, 2020 at 10:00

One of the most prevalent current trends concerning mined commodities is the shift, driven by the effort to reduce our carbon footprint, is towards the electrification of the global transportation…