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    • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
      Copper
      Copper price slides as global demand drops sharply

      LME stockpiles build up rapidly as European industrial activity cools

    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      Ford Motor Co
      Ford strikes lithium deals in bid to secure EV battery supplies

      Carmaker seeks to reduce $7bn cost gap with rivals by simplifying ranges and supply chains

    • Monday, 15 May, 2023
      Precious metals
      Platinum market expected to hit record deficit this year

      Surge in industrial demand comes as South African supply hit by electricity shortages

    • Thursday, 11 May, 2023
      FT Magazine
      The harrowing true story of a high-stakes heist gone wrong

      Demand is so high that thieves risk their lives to supply cartels with scrap metal

    • Wednesday, 10 May, 2023
      Australian lithium producer Allkem strikes merger deal with US rival Livent

      Key battery component lithium is pivotal as car industry switches to electric

    • Tuesday, 9 May, 2023
      Cobalt
      Indonesia emerges as world’s second-largest cobalt producer

      Fast-growing supply depresses prices but raises fears about China’s control of market

    • Tuesday, 9 May, 2023
      Weak Chinese demand pushes iron ore prices to five-month low

      The 23% fall in prices from recent high adds to concern over strength of China’s economic recovery

    • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
      News in-depth
      Chile’s move to control lithium alarms industry

      Australia, Argentina and African countries set to benefit as Santiago moves ‘urgently’ to take stake in key projects

    • Sunday, 30 April, 2023
      News in-depthMining
      The Big Dig: Germany reopens its mines in quest for mineral self-sufficiency

      Berlin wants to reduce its dependence on China by extracting more critical raw materials, such as fluorspar, at home

    • Tuesday, 25 April, 2023
      Mining
      ‘Playing with fire’: the countdown to mining the deep seas for critical minerals

      UN-backed regulator at centre of wrangle over future of Pacific Ocean’s depths as July deadline looms

    • Monday, 24 April, 2023
      Industrials
      Swedish ‘green steel’ start-up plans €1.5bn fundraising

      Financing would rank among the largest equity rounds in Europe this year

    • Sunday, 23 April, 2023
      Banks
      ING sues China’s biggest bank over copper trading losses

      Dutch lender alleges ICBC failed to collect payment for metals sold to cash-squeezed commodity trader Maike

    • Friday, 21 April, 2023
      Chile
      Chile’s president moves to bring lithium under state control

      Leftwing leader Gabriel Boric also promises to impose stricter environmental rules

    • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
      Shares in China metals miner CMOC surge as Congo impasse clears 

      Deal between Chinese group and Gécamines threatens to put downward pressure on cobalt prices

    • Sunday, 16 April, 2023
      Rare earths
      UK looks to mine potential rich seam of critical clean-tech minerals

      British Geological Survey maps areas for exploration as ministers look to strengthen supply of key raw materials

    • Tuesday, 11 April, 2023
      Commodities
      China leads rise in export restrictions on critical minerals, OECD says

      Sharp rise in controls threatens to drive up cost of green energy transition, body warns

    • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
      Leslie Hook
      Glencore’s bid for Teck Resources revives animal spirits in race for copper

      Mining M&A is back with copper driving deals as cash-rich companies anticipate shortfall of the metal later this decade

    • Monday, 3 April, 2023
      LexChinese business & finance
      CITIC/Nanjing I&S: Beijing forges tighter bonds to steel supply chain

      China wants more control over an industry where global mining groups such as BHP have strong sway

    • Monday, 3 April, 2023
      The Big Read
      How China is winning the race for Africa’s lithium

      The country already dominates processing of the metal for use in electric vehicle batteries and is now investing heavily in mines, leaving western operators scrambling to keep up

    • Saturday, 1 April, 2023
      News in-depthMining
      Deep-sea mining is key to making transition to clean energy, says Loke

      Norwegian owner of UK Seabed Resources says backing from Europe needed in the face of Chinese dominance

    • Wednesday, 29 March, 2023
      Europe Express
      US bends to EU pleading on access to green tech handouts Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: when Big Tech pretends to be small

    • Monday, 27 March, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
      Money market madness

      Nickel market could face widespread problems after instances of fraud start to emerge

    • Friday, 24 March, 2023
      News in-depthCopper
      Copper price to surge to record high this year, Trafigura forecasts

      Rebound in Chinese demand has pushed up cost faster than any other industrial metal

    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      LME finds bags of stones instead of nickel in metal warehouse

      Discovery of fake consignment comes weeks after Trafigura unearthed $500mn nickel fraud

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      Lex
      Indonesia/nickel: volting ambition of IPOs outruns potential Premium content

      Indonesian president Joko Widodo hopes to move the country up the global electric car supply chain

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