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In the middle of a trade war, Congo is trying to woo Trump’s White House without risking critical investment from Beijing.
China's CMOC Group, the world's top cobalt mining company, called on Democratic Republic of Congo last week to lift a ban on ...
On April 24, President Trump signed an executive order promoting deep-sea mining in the US and international waters, touting ...
There is currently no commercial deep-sea mining happening anywhere in the world, though companies have been pushing for years. They appear to have found a new champion in Trump.
A key objective of our collaboration with government is to establish a programme for local mineral beneficiation, which is to ...
To benefit from the latest surge in global demand for strategic minerals, African countries must learn from past experiences and build transparent processes that advance stability and benefit ordinary ...
At the start of the year cobalt prices fell to their lowest level ever on an inflation adjusted basis and reached near decade lows nominally. A surge in supply from the Congo, responsible for 80% ...
The U.S. is pushing for a deal aimed at stabilizing eastern Congo while securing access to the region’s minerals. Washington ...
LFP batteries are fuelling a boom in energy storage projects that - in percentage terms - now outpaces electric vehicle sales ...
The US under Donald Trump sees the ocean floor as a new frontier, making the Pacific Ocean’s mineral-rich seabed a new ...
Donald Trump has signed a controversial executive order aimed at stepping up deep-sea mining within US and in international ...
A California startup has developed the specialized resin beads needed to extract lithium from brine with ion exchange and ...