Volkswagen Group is seeking partnerships with battery raw material producers in order to vertically integrate and achieve security of supply and competitive prices for its minerals needs, a spokesperson for the German automaker told Fastmarkets on Thursday June 17.This is in line with the company's strategy to move forward with the electrification of its fleet. Besides gaining security of supply,...Read More
The Cobalt standard grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lb trade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies.Fastmarkets assessed Cobalt standard grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lb at 20.20-20.95 on Thursday June 17, 2021.Purchase...Read More
The Cobalt alloy grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lbtrade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies.Fastmarkets assessed Cobalt alloy grade, in-whs...Read More
Most producers of cobalt sulfate in China kept their offers high in the past week but buyers put up resistance and were cautious about placing orders, sources told Fastmarkets.Producers were asking for 71,000-73,000 yuan ($14,738-15,153) per tonne during the week, the same as a week earlier, but buyers were not willing to pay these amounts. As such, only a few deals were said to have been conclude...Read More
Enabling large-scale expansion of solar power production capacity is a crucial part of the transition to a sustainable future for energy, but its prospects of growth rest on the current and future availability of key minerals and metals. Governments and organizations the world over are busy setting ambitious targets to cut carbon footprints and restrict global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsiu...Read More
China's journey to carbon neutrality will involve a major shift towards renewable energy, says a team of analysts at London-based business intelligence company CRU.China has pledged to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060 and peak carbon emissions by 2030. http://www.gov.cn/xinwen/2020-10/29/content_5555864.htmIt is a journey defined by electrification and renewable energy, says the analysts in a whi...Read More
Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) has started up its new commercial scale demonstration plant to produce high quality scandium oxide. The plant is located at its Rio Tinto Fer et Titane (FTFT) metallurgical complex in Sorel-Tracy, Quebec.The $6 million project was completed on time and on budget, less than six months after the start of construction.The Quebec government contributed $650,00...Read More
BHP (NYSE: BHP; LSE: BHP; ASX: BHP), the world's largest miner, is weeks away from deciding whether to go ahead with its long-delayed Jansen potash project in Canada, more than 10 years after completing the mine's feasibility study.The company has been mulling a final decision on the asset for at least eight years, during which it has spent about US$4.5 billion laying the ground for the crop nutr...Read More
Bluejay Mining (LSE: JAY; US-OTC: BLLYF) has received approval to build its Dundas Ilmenite project on the northwest coast of Greenland, 80 km north of the town of Qaanaaq.The company said its approved exploitation and closure plan is the final government-level approval required before construction at Dundas can start.In December, the Greenland-focused explorer and developer was granted the explo...Read More
Prices for steel scrap imported into China were unchanged on Thursday June 17, with only limited negotiations between buyers and sellers.Fastmarkets' daily price assessment for steel scrap, heavy recycled steel materials, cfr China, which takes into account prices at ports in eastern China, was $530-540 per tonne on Thursday, unchanged day on day. Offers from Japan were heard at $570-580 per tonne...Read More
Debswana Diamond, a joint venture between De Beers and the government of Botswana, has found a 1,098-carat stone, one of only four rocks over 1,000 carats ever unearthed, and the biggest by the company since it began operations five decades ago.The yet to be named massive stone was picked on June 1 at Jwaneng, the world's richest diamond mine by value, which is undergoing a US$2 billion expansion...Read More
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Export prices for Japanese steel scrap have continued to rise over the past week amid high demand from South Korea as well as local buyers in Japan, sources told Fastmarkets.The scrap export market for Japan resembled a tug-of-war last week, with a major South Korean buyer lowering its bid prices by ?1,000 ($9) per tonne while the outcome of the June 9 auction of the Kanto Tetsugen - a cooperativ...Read More
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