RANKED: Top 20 automakers by EV battery metal spending
While the global electric car market has certainly slowed down from the rapid growth of the last few years, particularly in Europe, year to date unit sales (including plug-in and…
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Mining CEO salaries rise, but gender diversity remains elusive, Bedford report finds
Chief executive base salaries in the mining industry increased between 2% and 12% in 2023, according to the Bedford Group/TRANSEARCH’s 2024 Board and Executive Compensation Report. Companies with assets under…
Exploration spending to stay flat despite Trump pledges, strong gold prices, S&P says
The amount spent to find new mineral sources may grow little next year, even if gold prices continue their record run and President-elect Donald Trump cuts red tape, according to…
How resource ‘classification debt’ chips away at miners’ growth and investor trust
Over the past decade, resource misclassification has saddled the mining industry with a costly problem. It’s one Guy Desharnais, Osisko Gold Royalties’ (TSX: OR; NYSE: OR) vice-president for project evaluation,…
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…
South32 tapped for US$166M funding for Arizona manganese plant
South32 (LSE: S32; ASX: S32) says its Hermosa project in Arizona has been tapped for a United States government grant of up to US$166 million, part of U.S. energy department…
Euro Manganese signs on US chemical firm as offtake partner
Euro Manganese (TSXV, ASX: EMN) says it’s gained its second off-take agreement in a week for the Chvaletice project in Czechia, the European Union’s sole large resource of the battery metal….
Canada imposes tariffs on Chinese EVs, steel to boost mining sector
Canada on Monday introduced weighty tariffs on steel, aluminum and electric vehicle (EV) imports from China in a move the government said will protect the mining sector and domestic jobs…
Feds end Canada’s rail strike
Ottawa has stepped in to end a rare strike halting both of Canada’s major railways less than a day after it began. Labour Minister Steve MacKinnon on Thursday afternoon ordered…
Euro Manganese shares jump after offtake deal with US cathode specialist
The seven-year deal will account for a “significant percentage” of Chvaletice manganese production.
Video: ‘Grade smearing’ top junior sector misdeed, Brent Cook says
Retail investors can struggle to make sense of drill results, but some junior mining explorers make things worse with misleading reporting practices that inflate the value of their projects, industry…
Video: ‘Big bang’ in commodity demand set to lift miners, Prins says
Global miners are set to benefit from rising needs for “real assets,” Nomi Prins, a macroeconomist and author of the newsletter PrInsights Global, says in a new interview. Global geopolitical…