World No. 2 iron ore supplier Vale SA delivered a bigger-than-expected increase in production last quarter in a result that may undermine prices of the key steelmaking ingredient.
Australian battery metal producer IGO Ltd said on Wednesday it would put its Cosmos nickel project in Western Australia into care and maintenance due to low prices, as it also trimmed its annual lithium production forecast.
Shares in Lifezone Metals, 17% owned by BHP, rose in the early hours of Monday’s trading session on news about a high-grade nickel discovery at its Kabanga project in northwest Tanzania.
Marking a key milestone for its lithium manganese iron phosphate (LMFP) battery strategy, Firebird Metals Ltd (ASX:FRB, OTC:FRBMF) has completed the fit-out of the research and development centre with the manganese sulphate pilot plant in China now operational...