cobalt

First Cobalt is in advanced talks with Canada’s Ontario province to finance the $37.5-million required to restart its idled cobalt refinery, president and CEO Trent Mell said in an interview on Tuesday.

If successful, such a deal would reduce First Co…

Cobalt supply will remain robust despite a price slide that has already led to the closure of a major mine, Russia’s Norilsk Nickel said, as most is produced as a byproduct of more buoyant metals like nickel and copper.

Prices of the battery metal sur…

Following the success of the new Bon Pasteur child protection centre in Kolwezi, in the Lualaba province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, diversified natural resources group Eurasian Resources Group is aiming to replicate the centre’s model in…

TSX-V-listed Canada Cobalt Works is making headway to becoming a vertically integrated leader in Canada’s silver/cobalt heartland with the acquisition of “strategic assets” from PolyMet Resources in the town of Cobalt.

The company has announced a bind…

North American cobalt company First Cobalt has restored power to its refinery north of Toronto, Canada, and has deployed a team of engineers and technicians to assess the condition of the equipment that has been on care-and-maintenance since 2015.

The…

Diversified miner Glencore has entered into a five-year agreement to supply cobalt hydroxide to Chinese battery metals producer GEM Co. Under the terms of the agreement, Glencore will provide GEM with at least 61 200 t of cobalt hydroxide between 2020 …

Canadian mining firm Fortune Minerals has cut back plans for the Nico cobalt/gold/bismuth/copper project in the Northwest Territories, reporting on Thursday that the current cobalt price environment did not justify the expanded throughput rate that it …