Nickel

Exports from world’s second-largest copper to drop this year

Concentrate shipments from Indonesia’s Grasberg mine, the world’s second-largest copper mine, will drop about 85% this year because of a lag in output while operations shift from open pit to underground mining, a government official said

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Canada’s Cobalt 27 goes after lithium with royalty acquisition

Cobalt 27 will put in about $9 million into a share of production at Mineral Resources and Jiangxi Ganfeng Lithium’s Mount Marion lithium project in Western Australia.

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Pancontinental starts drilling Ontario nickel-cobalt-copper project

Pancon revealed that its objective for the initial phase of Montcalm’s program is to drill at least 4,500 metres to test a series of new conductor targets identified in 2018.

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China slowdown a big threat to industrial metals in 2019 — analyst

With metals ringing off the new year on a weak note, both price- and demand-wise, BMO Metals says the main questions for 2019 revolve around China and whether its government is doing enough to slow the country’s economic contraction.

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Anglo American management shake-up sees Brazil’s CEO replaced

Ruben Fernandes, who has led the company’s iron ore and nickel interests in the South American country for almost three years, will become CEO of Base Metals effective March 1.

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Blackwater founder launches fund to invest in electric car battery metals

The founder of US private security company Blackwater aims to raise as much as $500 million to invest in deposits of metals such as cobalt, lithium and copper, mainly in Africa and Asia.

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