Global cobalt resources are highly concentrated. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the world’s identified cobalt reserves total 11 million tons. The distribution of cobalt ...

Cobalt prices and stocks surged in China after the Democratic Republic of Congo extended its export ban to September, ...

Cobalt prices and stocks surged in China after the Democratic Republic of Congo extended its export ban to September, ...

If the U.S. wants to secure critical minerals it should invest in mining and processing facilities on home soil rather than ...

Based on average global ore concentrations, getting that copper would require extracting 40,000,000 tons of surface rock (overburden) and 25,000,000 tons of copper ore. Recommended ...

Women washers handling raw cobalt ore display dangerously high levels of heavy metals in their bloodstreams, increasing the risk of having stillborn babies or children with birth defects.

On their backs, they carry dirty white sacks of raw copper and cobalt ore. “We make a good living doing this,” he says of his workers who operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

One trader told the man that the cobalt ore he’d dug up was unusually pure ... of six used to regularly extract two tons of raw material from a single pit in Kasulo. But most of the best ...

Mining engineer Pierre Amani Kangenda peers into the mouth of a narrow shaft that plunges straight down to the belly of a cobalt mine. He can't quite make out the silhouettes of the young men ...

Cobalt and nickel prices have collapsed since 2022 and both are now in oversupply worldwide. In other words, cobalt- and nickel-based batteries are yesterday’s technology.