EV Metal Index rockets to record high on cobalt, nickel price, use

Booming global electric car sales and growth in battery capacity lift MINING.COM EV Metal Index to monthly record and wipe out 2020 pandemic losses.

Frik Els | November 18, 2020 | 3:29 pm

Copper price surges on Peru worries, China futures launch

Copper price at fresh multi year high on worries over Peru concentrate supply, optimism about new Chinese futures contract open to international investors.

Frik Els | November 16, 2020 | 1:51 pm

How Olympic Dam went from mother of all digs to debottlenecking

The final chapter on the world's most ambitious – and costly – mining project has closed.

Frik Els | October 29, 2020 | 5:33 pm

Cobalt, nickel price rally lifts EV Metal Index to 2020 high

Cobalt prices are up 30% this year and nickel has rebounded from its pandemic lows, powering the MINING.COM EV Metal Index to $1.2 billion so far this year.

Frik Els | October 21, 2020 | 4:08 pm

Copper price surges to 28-month high

Strikes in top producer Chile, hopes of US economic stimulus and robust Chinese data spark copper price rally – now up 63% since pandemic lows.

Frik Els | October 20, 2020 | 10:18 am

Nickel, copper prices near new highs as China powers on

Nickel at 11-month high and copper close to fresh two-year peak as China's construction and industrial production soars going into the fourth quarter.

Frik Els | October 19, 2020 | 11:45 am

Copper price in biggest drop since height of pandemic

Copper price rally comes to abrupt halt with 6% fall on Thursday as stockpiles balloon despite heavy Chinese buying.

Frik Els | October 1, 2020 | 10:27 am

Iron ore price jumps 5% after Vale suspension

"Supply disruption could provide short-term support to the market, which has eased from six-year highs earlier this month."

Frik Els | September 30, 2020 | 11:57 am

Copper price surges on booming Chinese factories

Gauge of manufacturing shows new orders at China's factories jumping to 9-year high as top copper consumer enters "above-trend growth" period.

Frik Els | September 30, 2020 | 10:25 am

Mines are the biggest holes in Tesla’s $25,000 car plans

“We sorta take a chunk of dirt out of the ground, remove the lithium, and put the chunk of dirt back where it was. It will not look, like, terrible. It will be nice.”

Frik Els | September 24, 2020 | 3:08 pm

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