Tag: Nickel

In an effort to supercharge Australia’s critical mineral supply chain, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) is investing $75 million in mining-focused alternative investments firm Resource Capital Funds (RFC).

Canada Nickel hits high grades at Bannockburn site south of main Crawford project

Indonesia is squeezing supplies of nickel ore to protect smaller local miners as the market for the battery metal endures a prolonged slump, according to Eramet SA.

Indonesia’s imports of nickel ore surged to 9.3 million metric tons in the first ten months of 2024, more than 50 times the corresponding figure of 161,917 tons for the year earlier period, the statistics bureau said on Friday.

The speed at which Anglo American shifts to becoming a copper-focused miner may well dictate its ultimate fate – survival as an independent operator, or absorption by a bigger rival such as BHP Group, which earlier this year failed to buy the group.

Vale (NYSE: VALE) is considering a potential public listing for its base metals unit by the end of 2026, according to the chair of Vale Base Metals (VBM), Mark Cutifani.

BHP’s relationship with its Western Australian nickel operations has been something of an on-and-off affair.

A quarter of the world’s copper mining projects are at increasing risk from the impacts of climate change, with extreme rainfall expected to affect production of the metal crucial for the global clean energy transition by 2050, new research shows.

Stillwater Critical Minerals (TSXV: PGE) is collaborating with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to study the potential for geologic hydrogen production at its flagship nickel-PGE-copper-cobalt project in Montana.

Indonesia’s nickel production surge is crushing competitors and challenging the West’s ambitions of diversifying its critical metals supply chains.

Norway announced on Wednesday the opening of vast areas in the Arctic for its first seabed mineral licensing round.

Shares in Class 1 Nickel and Technologies (CSE: NICO; US-OTC: NICLF) gained 43% Thursday to 20¢ apiece after the company released a second resource update in a month for the Alexo-Dundonald project in northern Ontario.