Indonesia, the world's largest nickel producer, may cut its nickel output quota for 2025 to 150 million tons, from 272 million tons in 2024 — a cut of 44.84%. Reports suggest the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry wants to cut production to...

In the Californian Gold Rush of 1848, Samuel Brannan owned the only store between San Francisco and the major gold deposits. According to legend, he bought up all the shovels, picks and pans he could find and ran through the...

Canada’s Athabasca basin has the highest grade uranium deposits in the world, with grades up to x100 higher than averages mined elsewhere in the world. And now, the region is at the center of a geopolitical struggle to secure the...

Panasonic Energy, a major supplier of electric batteries to Tesla, wants to end its dependence on electric battery supply from China for US production. Allan Swan, the company's President for North America, emphasized that eliminating any dependence is the company's...

On January 3, 2025, the Biden administration issued the final permit for Perpetua Resources' Stibnite Antimony-Gold project in Idaho, according to a report by Reuters. The move comes just weeks after China announced export restrictions on antimony (as well as...

China has outlined plans to restrict exports of key technologies used in lithium refining and electric battery chemical production. The proposal by China's Ministry of Commerce, currently open for public feedback and open to change, includes specific technologies, such as:...

Electric battery manufacturers can expect supply deficits across key critical minerals by 2030, including lithium, nickel, manganese and cobalt, due to soaring demand, as well as imbalanced regional supply and demand. A new report by McKinsey & Company estimates estimates...

President Joe Biden's administration has rushed through US$38 billion in loan commitments since the election on November 5, an estimated 50% of all awards issued during Biden’s presidency. Analysis by the Financial Times estimates five of the new loan commitments...

Apple Inc. has announced the suspension of its tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold (3TG) supply from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda. The company says the decision was taken as violence escalated in the region, but also comes...

The world will need 3 billion metric tons of metals from 2024 to 2050 to meet an economic transition scenario, where no long-term climate targets are hit — and, this doubles to 6 billion metric tons, to reach net-zero emissions. The...

The discovery of Cerro Rico, or “Rich Mountain”, in Potosí, Bolivia, in 1545, transformed the global silver market. This single mountain produced an astounding 60% of the world’s silver during the second half of the 16th century, making it one of the...

The American Active Anode Material Producers (AAAMP), a coalition of American graphite producers, has filed a petition to the US Department of Commerce and International Trade Commission (ITC) calling for a trade investigation on the violation of anti-dumping laws on...