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India Sets Six-Month Import Cap on Key Steelmaking Ingredient Met Coke

India will impose restrictions on the import of low-ash metallurgical coke, a key steelmaking ingredient, for six months starting January 1, 2025, a government …

Mongolia

Mongolia Reaches Deal for $1.6 Billion Uranium Mine With France’s Orano

Mongolia said on Friday it had reached a preliminary agreement with France’s Orano Mining Group to develop a long-anticipated uranium mining project worth…

Nigeria

Nigeria Resumes Mining in Zamfara State on Improved Security

Nigeria has lifted a ban on mining exploration in the northwestern state of Zamfara after a five-year suspension, the mining minister said, citing improved secu…

United States

Lithium Americas and GM Close Joint Venture for Thacker Pass Mine

Lithium Americas said on Monday it has closed its joint venture with US automaker General Motors to develop the Thacker Pass lithium mine in Nevada.The miner&rs…

China

China’s 2025 Steel Demand to Fall 1.5% on Year, State Research Institute Says

China’s steel demand is forecast to fall 1.5% in 2025 and drop 4.4% in 2024 from the year before, the state-backed China Metallurgical Industry Planning a…

Metal

El Salvador President Proposes Bill to Overturn Metals Mining Ban

El Salvador’s Congress will begin debating a bill on Saturday from President Nayib Bukele that would overturn a 2017 national ban on metals mining, the he…

China

Iron Ore Rises on Pre-holiday Restocking, China Stimulus Hopes

Iron ore futures prices gained for a second straight session on Tuesday, supported by pre-holiday restocking by steelmakers in top consumer China and revived ho…

United States

President Biden to Decide Fate of Nippon Steel’s $15BN Bid for US Steel

Nippon Steel’s $15 billion bid for US Steel has been referred to US President Joe Biden, a White House spokesman said, giving the president 15 days to decide o…

United States

The Coming Critical Minerals Trade War Is Brics Short of a Load

The incoming Trump administration’s threat of tariffs has muddied the already cloudy outlook for mining and metals in 2025.Chinese retaliation has been sw…

Australia

Progress of Projects Such as the Orient Polymetallic Mine in Australia

Iltani Resources has seen high-grade mineralization at the Orient East silver indium project in northern Queensland, which had previously seen the highest grade…

Battery

NY Utility Approves Battery Storage Project on Shuttered US Nuclear Site

The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) has approved 79 MW and 50 MW battery storage projects in Suffolk County, New York state. It is granting Key Capture Energ…

Sweden

Government Inquiry Recommends Lifting Swedish Uranium Ban

Sweden should remove its prohibition on uranium mining to allow it to be exploited like other natural resources regulated under the Minerals Act, a government i…

Hydrogen Production

New Strategies to Enhance Catalyst Stability in Green Hydrogen Production

An international team of researchers from Forschungszentrum Jülich, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Imperial College London and others, are refining…

Canada

Taykwa Tagamou Nation Invests $20 Million in Canada Nickel

Following final approval in January 2025, Taykwa Tagamou Nation in Ontario will hold 8.4 per cent equity interest in Canada Nickel CompanyTaykwa Tagamou Nation …

Hydrogen Technology

The World’s First Green Hydrogen Metallurgy Continuous Casting Production Line for Car Panels Has Been Put Into Operation, With an Annual Production Capacity of 1.5 Million Tons.

December 16th, according to a report by CCTV, the world's first hydrogen metallurgy green car panel continuous casting production line by HBIS was put into …