Cobalt
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Generation Mining feasibility defines 13-year open pit mine
A feasibility study from Generation Mining (TSX: GENM) on its 80%-held Marathon palladium-copper project in northwestern Ontario suggests a 25,200 t/d open pit operation producing a copper-PGM (platinum group metal) concentrate for sale to an off-site smelter. In its first…
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Seafloor miner DeepGreen plans listing through merger with SPAC
Seafloor mining hopeful DeepGreen Metals is planning to go public through a merger with Sustainable Opportunities Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: SOAC), a special purpose acquisition fund (SPAC) focused on ESG, energy and metals. The combined company will be called The Metals…
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Interview: Clean TeQ’s Sunrise battery materials complex in Australia is construction ready
Clean TeQ’s (ASX: CLQ; US-OTC: CTEQF) Sunrise project in New South Wales, Australia, is one of the largest nickel/cobalt deposits in the world and one of the largest and highest grade accumulations of scandium ever discovered. The project has proven…
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Glencore inks ‘ethical cobalt’ deal with Norway’s FREYR
Miner and commodities trader Glencore (LSE: GLEN) has inked a preliminary deal with Norwegian battery producer FREYR to supply 3,700 tonnes of “ethically sourced” cobalt metal cut cathodes. The cobalt, which will be produced at the Swiss company’s Nikkleverk facility…
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First Cobalt starts pre-construction work on Ontario refinery
First Cobalt has begun pre-construction work at its permitted cobalt refinery in Ontario. The company is now working on detailed engineering and procurement of long lead-time items, including a cobalt crystallizer and solvent extraction and filtering equipment. Pilot plant test…
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Canada Nickel reports high-grade concentrate from Crawford testing
Canada Nickel has announced processing test results from its Crawford nickel-cobalt sulphide project in the Timmins-Cochrane mining district. The latest processing data suggests a 52% nickel recovery, with 46% of the recovered nickel splitting into a high-grade nickel concentrate, at…
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Clean Air Metals tables resource for Thunder Bay North based on underground scenario
Clean Air Metals has released updated resources for the PGM-cobalt-copper-nickel Current Lake and Escape Lake deposits within its Thunder Bay North project in Ontario, 50 km from Thunder Bay. The company now plans to advance Current Lake towards a preliminary…
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First Cobalt inks feed agreements for refinery starting in 2022
First Cobalt has secured cobalt feed amounting to 90% of capacity for its First Cobalt Refinery in Ontario. The facility will be the only producer of cobalt sulphate for electric vehicle batteries in North America once the company completes a…
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Canada Nickel, Ontario First Nations sign deal to advance Crawford
Canada Nickel Company and the Matachewan and Mattagami First Nations signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in relation to exploration and development operations at the Crawford nickel-cobalt sulphide project in Ontario. In a press release, the parties involved explained that…
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Chasm between copper, cobalt and nickel exploration success and future demand
The switch to green energy and electric vehicles will see demand for battery metals and copper boom over the coming decades. But at the moment, the pipeline of projects to meet that demand appears wholly inadequate. MINING.COM’s sister company MiningIntelligence…
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Carmakers have blind spot for lithium, cobalt, nickel prices
A new research note from battery supply chain specialist and price reporting agency Benchmark Mineral Intelligence has a warning for carmakers about the direction of battery prices used in electric vehicles – they won’t fall indefinitely. Andrew Leyland, Head of…
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K92 shares up on high-grade drill results at Kora
K92 Mining shares were up Monday morning as the company released results from the ongoing diamond drilling of the Kora deposit at the Kainantu gold mine in Papua New Guinea. The drilling results are highlighted by hole KMDD0261 which recorded…
