Congo, the world’s biggest cobalt supplier, in February banned exports of the metal for four months to curb market oversupply ...

The country is considering extending a restriction on cobalt exports to further push up prices. It’s not the only ...

CMOC Group boosted cobalt production at its mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the first three months of this year even after local authorities imposed a temporary halt to exports of the ...

Cobalt is a mineral in high demand for its use in electric vehicle batteries, aerospace and defense technologies.

CMOC forecast production of cobalt, a by-product of copper, between 100 000 and 120 000 tons this year. The company is the world's biggest cobalt miner and last year more than doubled output of ...

Africa has some of the richest cobalt deposits on Earth. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) leads the pack. It produces around 70% of the world's cobalt. This comes from its mineral-packed areas, ...

Trump’s executive order added copper and several other minerals to the nation’s list of critical minerals, which had already included nickel and cobalt. Taconite is mined in the Superior ...

The Similkameen River near Princeton, B.C., about 30 kilometres downstream from where Barrick Gold Inc. was penalized for repeatedly sending mine waste into a tributary. Cobalt levels were found ...