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China’s slowdown is miners’ single biggest fear this year — report

Based on answers from 51 senior executives, lawyers White & Case say that trade tensions are the second largest challenge for the mining industry in 2019 and reveal what the underlying full-picture looks like.

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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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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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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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Explorex Resources begins drilling for cobalt in Canada’s New Brunswick

The Canadian junior miner is taking advantage of a window of opportunity presented by a local drill company to complete two holes prior to the Christmas break.

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