First Cobalt (TSXV: FCC) is moving directly into an expansion scenario for its permitted cobalt refinery in Ontario after conducting a detailed engineering study on…
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TSX-V-listed First Cobalt is moving directly to an expansion scenario at its cobalt refinery, north of Toronto, and will conduct pilot plant work at third-party facilities, saving millions of dollars.
An onsite demonstration plant would have required …
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Elon Musk may help sanctioned Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler get a little richer.
Tesla, the company Musk runs, struck a deal last month with Glencore to buy as much as 6 000 tons of cobalt annually for use in the rechargeable batteries that power it…
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The Queensland government has offered ASX-listed Australian Mines a conditional financial support package for the development of its Sconi cobalt/nickel/scandium project.
The support package will be funded from the government’s A$175-million Jobs and…
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The Queensland government has offered ASX-listed Australian Mines a conditional financial support package for the development of its Sconi cobalt/nickel/scandium project.
The support package will be funded from the government’s A$175-million Jobs and …
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A startup backed by a group of tycoons including Bill Gates plans to use data-crunching algorithms to search for cobalt near a Canadian nickel mine owned by Glencore.
Kobold Metals has acquired rights to an area of about 1 000 km2 — roughly the size …
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KoBold Metals is investing in battery metal projects using big data and scientific computing with capital from billionaires including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. The…
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The rapidly growing electric vehicle industry will have a significant impact on the mining sectors…
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The Democratic Republic of Congo’s main copper and cobalt-producing province halted trade in hand-dug minerals through June 29 in order to improve controls on the industry, amid concerns that Covid-19 could hit the mineral-rich region. Mines Minister W…
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Cobalt prices are at ten-month lows due to sagging demand from the electric vehicle and aerospace sectors amid the Covid-19 pandemic and look likely to slide further as airlines defer maintenance.
Airlines such as Australia’s Qantas, Qatar Airways and…
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