An Important Message For Oilprice Members

  1. Marina Schwarz


    The IEA is very, very worried that Congo supplies 60% of the world's cobalt. It's also very, very worried that China has 90% of...
      

  2. Marina Schwarz


    Scientists from the Deep Carbon Observatory in the U.S. published a study this week where they report the first application to mineralogy of network...
      

  3. Marina Schwarz


    And it's not just EVs and stuff. There are some pretty interesting reasons here.
      

  4. Marina Schwarz


    BHP and the Escondida labor union have failed to strike a deal, so chances are the biggest copper mine in the world is in...
      

  5. 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...
      

  6. Marina Schwarz


    Everyone's after cobalt, thieves included. Cobalt -- the new gold!
      

  7. 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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  8. AB


    Global demand for renewable energy is sparking a bull market for copper as a crucial component for green energy. Roughly three times more copper...

  9. Marina Schwarz


    Metal markets are preparing for a new world disorder "Donald Trump’s attempts to re-balance global trade have already sent the metals world into a tizzy....
      

  10. 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...
      

  11. Marina Schwarz


    Goldcorp has launched the world's first all-electric mine, meaning machines will work with batteries instead of diesel. Sounds like good news to me. Much...
      

  12. SM


    Lloyd’s of London, the world’s oldest insurance market, has become the latest financial firm to announce that it plans to stop investing in coal...
      

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  13. Marina Schwarz


    yeah, I know how this sounds but it just goes to show you can do anything you like with numbers. From a certain perspective--the...
      

  14. Marina Schwarz


    I know how it sounds but McKinsey says with fast enough adoption of EVs demand for juice will jump so high it will even...
      

  15. MJ


    Watching with great interest as Glencore's stock tanks because a former partner who is close to the DRC's Kabila has maneuvered as asset seize,...
      

  16. MG


    Looks like the predicted demise of King Coal was premature.  It turns out that Pres. Trump's support of the coal industry has awakened the...
      

  17. Marina Schwarz


    Brazil's government is overhauling the mining regulations of the country in a bid to attract more investment and enforce strickter environmental rules. It's interesting...
      

  18. Guillaume Albasini


    Lithium supply at the mining level is increasing. New mines will open in the next years and some existing mines will be expanded. But...

  19. VK


    Vale will invest roughly $1.54 billion to launch underground nickel mining operations in Canada to meet booming demand for minerals used in EV batteries....
      

  20. Marina Schwarz


    For the first time in about two years. Chinese battery manufacturers believe they have secured enough supply for now. Swing producer or yes?
      

  21. Marina Schwarz


    Just when miners began to recover from the commodity prices slump it's facing resources nationalism and higher costs on the back of higher oil...
      

  22. Marina Schwarz


    Escondida miners are striking, the latest round of talks with BHP is unlikely to result in anything else than an extension of the strike...
      

  23. Guillaume Albasini


    Half of the EV are sold in China and chinese battery manufacturers are trying to secure their grip on world cobalt supply. A strategic move...

  24. Marina Schwarz


    Thanks to a major drawdown in stockpiles, probably in preparation for a major influx of EVs, and China production cuts. Up 75% over the...
      

  25. HL


    The US Treasury Department eased sanctions on Russian aluminum producer Rusal and said it would consider lifting them altogether if the company severs ties with...
      

  26. Marina Schwarz


    A Liechtenstein asset management company says gold is on the brink of a bull market but the funny thing, as in hilarious, is that...
      

  27. Marina Schwarz


    Vale is trying to do it, apparently. Which begs the question if this is not the same thing that OPEC is doing with oil...
      

  28. Marina Schwarz


    it seems that a lot of miners want a piece of SQM, which holds the biggest lithium reserves in the world and recently got the...
      

  29. Marina Schwarz


    There's an outbreak of ebola in Congo and it looks bad. Also, danger of civil war because of elections delays. All in all, good...
      

  30. LB


    Trouble piling up in DRC for Glencore, now Tanzania has canceled the Barrick Gold-Glencore mining license according to media reports, concerning the undeveloped Kabanga...
      

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