BHP is not done making moves in the nickel sector this year.  It has now officially kicked off production at Australia’s first nickel sulphate plant. The new facility, located in Kwinana just outside Perth, has begun churning out its first...

Indonesia Looking for Full Nickel Supply Chain Indonesia may soon slap an export tax on nickel products with less than 70% nickel content. What they’re after is to ramp up domestic refining and position themselves as an end to end...

It may have been a rough start to the year, but the price of nickel on the LME has come storming back, hitting a seven-year high of $20,225 per tonne. What’s behind the surge? A potent mix of Chinese demand,...

The answer? A lot! BMW has more than doubled its battery cell orders to over €20 billion (about $24 billion), up from a previous €12 billion. Speaking in an interview with Bloomberg, BMW CEO Oliver Zipse said the company is...

Indonesia is lining up a massive green industrial development Australia’s Fortescue Metals Group and China’s Tsingshan Holding Group. According to Luhut Pandjaitan, Indonesia’s coordinating minister for maritime affairs and investment, the two companies have been in talks since early this...

BHP, the world’s largest miner is battling Andrew Forrest, the billionaire founder of Fortescue Metals Group, for ownership of Canadian nickel developer Noront Resources, a move backed by Noront’s board. As reported by Bloomberg, in August 2021, BHP came in...

No surprises here. As the EV boom continues to thrive, automakers are moving upstream to secure the raw materials that power their batteries. In an interview with Bloomberg, Randy Smallwood, CEO of Wheaton Precious Metals, said “We’ve had conversations, and...

As reported by Mining Weekly,BHP’s Nickel West is expecting to make a final investment decision on the Mt Keith concentrator expansion by the end of the financial year. BHP plans to install a 16 MW semi-autogenous grinding (SAG) mill at...

We just published a piece on the market in Q2, however, due to price movements this month we felt it was worth another article to highlight just how fragile nickel’s supply chain is and thus the potential for disruption. On...

The second quarter of 2021 saw surging demand, supply constraints, and significant price movements. Here's an overview of some of the key developments during this period:​ After a dip to approximately $14,700 per metric ton in March, prices rebounded, closing...

Global EV sales in Q2 surged past 2.6 million units, nearly double what they were in the same period of 2020. Unsurprisingly, China is still leading the charge, accounting for nearly 50% of all EVs sold globally during the quarter....