by Gordon Barratt | Jan 20, 2023 | News
Protests in Peru are threatening to choke off access to almost $4-billion worth of copper just as China’s emergence from Covid lockdowns promises to boost demand. Peru’s third-largest copper mine, Las Bambas, hasn’t dispatched copper concentrate...
by Gordon Barratt | Jan 20, 2023 | News
CME Group’s lithium contract is showing the first signs of life since its 2021 inception as demand soars for battery metals key to the transition away from fossil fuels. Open interest in the lithium contract hit a record high of 473 contracts on Wednesday, and extends...
by Gordon Barratt | Jan 20, 2023 | News
Toronto-listed Ascot Resources has closed a C$200-million financing package for the construction of the Premier Gold Project (PGP), in British Columbia, which will allow the company to remobilse contractors to the site. The package consists of $110-million as a...
by Gordon Barratt | Jan 20, 2023 | News
New South Wales Treasurer Matt Kean will unveil requirements that force coal companies to reserve 10 per cent of their output exclusively for domestic use. The requirements are being put in place to ensure the state has enough coal to fire its power stations....
by Gordon Barratt | Jan 20, 2023 | News
In a nation-first, NSW will have transport companies, miners, manufactures and electricity producers take on the majority of the responsibility to cut emissions. The NSW Environment Protection Agency (EPA) will target around 50,000 companies to ensure they are...
