There is a big shift happening in Germany toward electric vehicle production
A new guest to the show Martin Stephan is a German citizen and closely involved in the lithium market. A…
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First Cobalt favours a quick restart of its idled cobalt refinery in Canada and will begin assessing the plant’s condition next week, CEO Trent Mell said on Monday.
The Toronto-based company has secured agreements under which commodity trader Glencore…
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TSX-V-listed First Cobalt is aiming to deliver a definitive feasibility study (DFS) on the expansion of its Ontario refinery to 55 t/d by the first quarter of next year, the company said on Wednesday, announcing several key contracts for the feasibilit…
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At current cobalt prices, 20% to 30% of global mine supply is at risk of "disappearing" in 2020, warns diversified natural resources group Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) CEO Benedikt Sobotka. He points out that cobalt prices had declined signif…
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First Cobalt Corp. [FCC-TSXV; FTSSF-OTCQB; FCC-ASX] said Glencore AG, the Swiss commodities trading giant, has…
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The refinery that TSX-V-listed First Cobalt plans to bring back to life in Canada with funding by global mining group Glencore, is set for first production late next year, the junior company said on Monday, announcing that it had entered into a definit…
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The Chinese operator of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s largest copper producer has told employees that it’s struggling to make money as the collapse of cobalt and copper prices hits miners in the country.
China Molybdenum, which operates the giant…
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China’s biggest cobalt refiner Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt said on Thursday its overseas unit is pulling out of a deal to invest $66.3-million in a cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after prices of the metal slid. Huayou International Mi…
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International diversified miner Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) has released its inaugural performance report for the Metalkol Roan Tailings Reclamation project, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The report was compiled as part of ERG’s commitment …
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Glencore’s plan to halt a fifth of the world’s cobalt production is set to offer some respite for prices of the battery material that cratered in the past year on a supply glut. The mining giant is set to close the Mutanda copper-and-cobalt facility in…
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