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 ...

"Everybody's been worried about China's leverage, but now they've actually shown that they'll cut off critical minerals." ...

When Fidra Energy acquired a 55-acre (22-hectare) patch of northern England countryside in 2023, its plan to transform it ...

The proposed mining area for the commercial recovery, TMC USA-A_2, spans more than 25,160km² ... 12.8mt of copper, 2mt of cobalt and 345mt of manganese. The NOAA will review TMC USA's applications, ...

As the role of minerals in global politics and energy transition grows, governments should ensure that the protection of ...

The thing that people have missed is that there is zero chance that this will not happen,” Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals ...

Demand for cobalt will rise faster than supply, allowing the market to reduce the 2024 surplus in coming years and swing to a ...

Scholarships and stipends could help build interest in the field to accompany the increasing demand for talent to develop strategic materials mining in the United States and globally in projects ...

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% ...

said seabed mining was needed to get the United States out from under the “supply chain yoke” of China, which currently processes a majority of the world’s cobalt, much of its nickel and ...