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  1. Marina Schwarz


    "Months into the Korean War, President Harry Truman capped wages and imposed price controls on the steel industry, seizing authority under a newly passed...
      

  2. AN


    IMF's April report is sweet on cobalt: Cobalt, another raw material for batteries, has experienced sharp price increases since 2016, fueled by tight supply...
      

  3. VK


    Now researchers at the University of California – Berkeley have found a way to create disordered cathodes that use metals other than cobalt, such...
      

  4. ML


    Vistra CEO is all over the news lately, giving a bunch of interviews after the company shut down its coal-fired plant in Texas and...
      

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  5. ML


    So we've got a 10% tariff on imports of aluminum to the U.S., plus sanctions on Russia, which include it's Rusal aluminum company. Things...
      

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  6. CM


     Rare metals are important in making high-tech products including electric vehicles, mobile phones and batteries. The metals lie in a seabed about 1,150 miles...
      

  7. CMOP


    Senate Republicans are moving to confirm a former coal industry lobbyist as the second highest ranking official at the Environmental Protection Agency. A Senate vote...
      

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  8. AV


    Finland is planning to ban the use of coal in energy production ahead of schedule in 2029 and encourage energy companies to abandon the...
      

  9. Marina Schwarz


    The copper market's in for a shortage sooner than expected. Old mines are getting depleted and there's not a lot of investment in new...
      

  10. Marina Schwarz


    Vanadium, a metal usede in batteries, is waiting for its "Elon Musk moment", that is, a businessperson of the magnitude of Musk to promote...
      

  11. CMOP


    A GOP lobbyist and strategist, who managed Rick Perry’s 2016 presidential bid, reportedly dined with President Trump Wednesday night. The dinner comes at the same time...
      

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  12. PP


    Debswana, the joint venture between Anglo American Plc’s De Beers unit and Botswana’s government, is seeking permission to deepen the Jwaneng mine to 830...
      

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  13. CMOP


    Coal exports from terminals in Virginia's Hampton Roads region were at a near four-year high 3.83 million st in March, up 8% from 3.55...
      

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  14. CMOP


    Days after FirstEnergy approached the Department of Energy with a request for what would have effectively been a bailout package, the company announced that its coal...
      

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  15. PZ


    France has ambitious climate change agenda. It's a vision of E. Macron, French political leader. The 2021 goal sets a more aggressive target than...
      

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  16. Marina Schwarz


    Another day, another battery, lithium-sulfur this time. And it uses molybdenum and some are already speculating this element can disrupt (excuse the buzzword) the...
      

  17. Marina Schwarz


    Imagine digging a hole in your yard and striking cobalt. This apparently happens a lot in Congo and people are dropping everything, taking shovels...
      

  18. SP


    Rio Tinto, the world’s second-largest miner, sold its 80-percent stake in the Kestrel coal mine in Queensland, Australia, for $2.25 billion, closing the last...
      

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  19. CD


    Looks like the mining industry has a god friends in the Congress. After they failed to obtain bailouts for failing coal plants and mines...
      

  20. Marina Schwarz


    African government are after miners for not paying enough taxes and not keeping up their promises to create jobs. On the one hand, there's...
      

  21. PP


    Miner and commodities trader Glencore has bought Rio Tinto’s Hail Creek coal mine in Australia for $1.7 billion, which increases the Swiss firm’s presence...
      

    • Petar Replied
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  22. Marina Schwarz


    BMI Research is predicting that copper production will grow by 3.8% annually over the next 10 years driven by EV demand. I'm beginning to...
      

  23. Marina Schwarz


    Almost half of Canada's pot-growing startups were previously resource companies before going green, so to speak. Interesting.
      

  24. PP


    Zimbabwe has changed its empowerment law to limit majority ownership by state entities to only diamond and platinum mines and not the entire mining...
      

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  25. Marina Schwarz


    Wood mac has joined Morgan Stanley in forecasting a lithium and cobalt oversupply beginning as early as next year. Miners must be adding production...
      

  26. FM


    International mining companies including Glencore, Randgold and Ivanhoe Mines quit the Democratic Republic of Congo’s chamber of commerce, saying the industry body no longer...
      

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  27. PP


    South Korea’s move to shut coal-fired generators to control air pollution at the same time as nuclear reactors are going into scheduled maintenance is...
      

    • Petar Replied
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  28. DD


    Ireland is to join an international alliance committed to accelerating the end of coal use for power generation and for other forms of energy....
      

  29. JT


    The US mining industry is asking the Supreme Court to revoke an Obama-era rule banning the mining of uranium on public lands nearby the Grand Canyon. The...
      

    • Joanna Replied
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  30. DD


    For years Rio Tinto has been the sole international copper mine operator in Mongolia, bound closely to a country where it has bet billions...
      

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