me-metals: China ’s export controls on three metals important across the defence and chip sectors are keeping shipments at historically low levels despite high prices worldwide as Beijing flexes its control over the minerals supply chain.
News ID: 11900 Publish Date : 2025/04/21
me-metals: Turkish billionaire Robert Yuksel Yildirim is on a $2 billion hunt for nickel mines, betting that the battery metal’s price will rebound and that the West will want those supplies to cut its reliance on China .
News ID: 11899 Publish Date : 2025/04/21
me-metals: A US producer of rare earth metals stopped shipments to China after Beijing placed export controls on similar materials crucial for defense and technology manufacturing.
News ID: 11898 Publish Date : 2025/04/20
me-metals: The Trump administration said on Thursday it would approve a land swap needed for Rio Tinto and BHP to build one of the world’s largest copper mines, despite concerns from Native Americans that it would destroy a site of religious value.
News ID: 11897 Publish Date : 2025/04/20
me-metals: Ontario will cut the time required to approve new mining projects by 50% in an attempt to make the province competitive as Canada faces tariffs and annexation threats from top trading partner the United States, the province’s Premier Doug Ford, said on Thursday.
News ID: 11888 Publish Date : 2025/04/18
me-metals: Ghana has ordered foreigners to exit its gold trading market by the end of the month, a new government body said on Monday, as the West African country looks to streamline gold purchases from small-scale miners, increase earnings and reduce smuggling.
News ID: 11879 Publish Date : 2025/04/15
me-metals: The People’s Bank of China has allocated fresh gold import quotas for some commercial banks, people familiar with the matter said, as Beijing responds to strong haven demand from institutional and retail investors in the face of an escalating trade war.
News ID: 11878 Publish Date : 2025/04/15
me-metals: China plans to keep building coal-fired power plants through 2027 in regions where they are needed to meet peak power demand or stabilise the grid, according to government guidelines for upgrading the coal power system released on Monday.
News ID: 11876 Publish Date : 2025/04/15
me-metals: Lynas Rare Earths Ltd. (ASX: LYC), backed by Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart, has been the most resilient stock on the country’s index since the market turmoil started last week.Since US President Donald Trump launched the so-called reciprocal tariffs, the Australian miner has been the only stock on the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index to avoid decline. After the announcement it rallied every day except for Tuesday, when it remained flat.
News ID: 11874 Publish Date : 2025/04/14
CHINA’S LARGEST BLAST FURNACE BACK IN OPERATION
me-metals: The 5800-cubic-meter blast furnace #4 of Jiangsu Shagang Group, at Zhangjiagang plant, in the Lo Jiangsu province, is back in operation after a modernization project executed by Danieli Corus.
News ID: 11871 Publish Date : 2025/04/13
me-metals: Chinese exports of rare-earth minerals are all but on hold as producers grapple with tighter permit requirements following last week’s new restrictions on the critical materials in an escalating trade war with the US.
News ID: 11870 Publish Date : 2025/04/13
me-metals: Saudi Arabia’s flagship mining company Ma’aden is considering choosing at least one of four foreign firms to form a rare earths processing partnership, three sources with knowledge of the matter said, as the kingdom bids to become a global critical minerals hub.
News ID: 11866 Publish Date : 2025/04/10
me-metals: Chile’s place at the low-end of US tariffs announced last week could be favorable for the world’s leading copper-producing country if US President Donald Trump decides to slap tariffs on copper, Chile Mining Minister Aurora Williams said on Wednesday.
News ID: 11862 Publish Date : 2025/04/10
me-metals: China has expanded its use of critical minerals as a trade weapon with curbs on exports of rare earths, threatening to shake-up the global supply of key materials used widely in high-tech manufacturing from electric vehicles to weaponry.
News ID: 11857 Publish Date : 2025/04/08
me-metals: A cascade of US tariffs announced by President Donald Trump will hurt Chinese steel exports and help to drag iron ore prices below $90 a ton by the end of the year, Goldman Sachs Group said in a note.
News ID: 11852 Publish Date : 2025/04/06
me-metals: China placed export restrictions on key rare earth elements on Friday as part of its sweeping response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs, potentially squeezing supply to the U.S. and the West of minerals vital to everything from defense to electric cars.
News ID: 11850 Publish Date : 2025/04/05
me-metals: International regulators on Friday condemned a seabed mining company’s move to circumvent their authority by seeking the Trump administration’s approval to extract critical minerals from untouched ocean ecosystems.
News ID: 11842 Publish Date : 2025/03/31
me-metals: Copper moved within touching distance of record prices on Monday as the metals market continues to express concerns over Trump’s tariff policies.
News ID: 11830 Publish Date : 2025/03/25
me-metals: One of the highest-profile copper bulls is back predicting new price records, as Donald Trump’s threat of tariffs drains global stocks and creates what he sees as unprecedented opportunities for trading profit.
News ID: 11829 Publish Date : 2025/03/24
me-metals: China plans to add to its strategic reserves of key industrial metals this year, an effort to boost the resilience of critical minerals supply at time when energy-transition demand is increasing and geopolitical tensions are running high.
News ID: 11827 Publish Date : 2025/03/22