CHART: Global mining and metals – a reality check
A new report by McKinsey’s energy and materials practice outlines a global mining and metals industry emerging from a few years of boom and bust and price fluctuations the consulting…
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Urbix gets US$125M government grant for Alabama graphite plant
Urbix, a company testing battery material production in the southern United States, has landed a US$125 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to build a new graphite processing…
Solaris Resources preps to move to Ecuador, months after derailed $130M-deal
Solaris Resources (TSX: SLS; NYSE: SLSR) is taking the first steps towards moving its head office to Quito, Ecuador’s capital, almost four months after it blasted a Canadian national security…
Sovereign Metals touts ‘outstanding’ battery-grade graphite from Malawi project
Sovereign Metals (ASX: SVM; LSE: SVML) has reached a major milestone by confirming the battery-quality of graphite concentrate to be processed from its Kasiya project in Malawi. The Australian company…
Northern Graphite boosts production 59% despite financial challenges
Northern Graphite (TSXV: NGC; US-OTC: NGPHF), the continent’s only graphite producer, reported a 59% increase in production from the first to second quarter this year at its Lac des Iles…
Confusion and consternation on critical minerals
What started out as optimism two years ago when the federal government turned its eye to critical minerals, introducing a strategy, incentives and funding, and pledging faster permitting for mines,…
Supply deal with EV maker Lucid Group powers Graphite One stock higher
Graphite One (TSXV: GPH; US-OTC: GPHOF) shares rose by a third after the company said it’s signed a deal with U.S. electric car maker Lucid Group (NASDAQ: LCID) for the…
Best resource investing bets for a Trump or Harris win
Since the July 13 assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, there’s been a proliferation of ‘Trump Trade’ ideas circulating across the media. Up until last week, a Trump re-election…
‘We can raise more money in the Middle East,’ says junior that left Canada for UAE
The graphite junior that redomiciled to the United Arab Emirates to access funding amid Canada’s clampdown on Chinese investment in critical minerals says it’s the first junior to do so,…
Canada’s resources not enough to ride energy transition wave: Ian London
London argues that Canada urgently needs to establish commercialization hubs to produce finished products like batteries, permanent magnets, and cathodes.
Rio Tinto puts $16.9M into graphite developer Sovereign
Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) is investing A$18.5 million ($16.9m) to increase its stake in Australia’s Sovereign Metals (ASX: SVM; LSE: SVML), which is advancing the Kasiya rutile-graphite…
Dead Solaris deal has cash-strapped Canadian miners considering the door
Some of Canada’s leading mining law firms say their clients are considering leaving the country because the federal government’s clampdown on Chinese investment has closed off an important funding lifeline. …