Video News - 2024 Industry Discussions & Disputes

How Indonesia and China are destroying global nickel companies
15 Nov 2024
Nickel is one of the essential metals used in electric vehicle batteries, stainless steel, and a bunch of other modern tech. Recently, Indonesia has been increasing its nickel production like never before, and this is having a huge impact on companies around the world that depend on nickel. The big players in places like European Union, Canada, and Australia are feeling the pressure, and some are even starting to struggle.

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Serbia: Protests against lithium mining | DW News
28 Sep 2024
Serbia has huge deposits of lithium. It’s an important resource for the production of modern batteries, such as those used in electric vehicles. Still, the local population is up in arms about a planned, large-scale mining project there.

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Canada to Hit China With New Tariffs on Electric Vehicles, Steel
27 Aug 2024
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government will impose new tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles, aluminum and steel.

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Cobalt Mining Is Still a Dangerous Job in Congo
25 Jun 2024
The south of the Democratic Republic of Congo sits on top of about four million tons of cobalt, a silvery-blue mineral used in nearly every lithium rechargeable battery on the planet. That's nearly half of the world’s known supply. And yet the Congo remains among the five poorest countries on the planet. A brutal combination of post-colonial dynamics, corruption and excessive greed have left those desperately digging with their bare hands with the losing card in the billion-dollar industry.

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Higher copper prices are coming
30 May 2024
John Meyer, partner at SP Angel, discusses demand in the copper market and M&A activity in the mining industry.

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President Biden looking to triple tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum
17 Apr 2024
President Biden is calling on his administration to raise tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum imports, potentially tripling rates for Chinese metals first implemented by the Trump administration to 25%. This clip explains what this may mean for the trade relationship between the US and China.

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We Went to America's Biggest Copper Mine: The Corruption Will Shock You
09 Apr 2024
The biggest mining corporations in the world want to extract $60 billion of copper in a rural Arizona community. Tensions are running high, with a Supreme Court battle imminent and the future of the region at stake.

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Metals Like Copper, Zinc Can Surge 8-10% In Next 3 Months
13 Mar 2024
Metals are at good accumulation level, says Kunal Shah of Nirmal Bang Commodities. Tells Manisha Gupta that metals like copper, zinc can surge 8-10% in next 3 months.

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Norway lured by deep-sea mining for rare metals
19 Jan 2024
Norway has just authorised commercial deep-sea mining on its seabed, which is rich in rare and precious metals. This announcement has whetted the appetite of mining companies, which are developing robots and drones to collect the rocks, located at a depth of 3,000 metres. Billions of euros are at stake in the exploitation of these so-called critical minerals, which are essential for building electric vehicle batteries and solar panels. But deep-sea mining could prove devastating for ecosystems.

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Sodium ion batteries - The low-cost future of energy storage?
03 Jan 2024
Sodium-ion batteries have promising cost, safety, sustainability and performance characteristics over traditional lithium-ion batteries but what are the key materials, how do they compare with each other and what does their scale-up pathway look like? In this video we discuss how sodium-ion batteries work, the pros and cons of different materials and discuss broader materials considerations.

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