Purchases for state stockpiles are driving up prices of cobalt metal in China, creating a hefty premium over the rest of the world and encouraging local producers to add large amounts of production ...

DRC's export quota is shaping up to be a long-term market control project but the history of similar enterprises has not ...

Kinshasa (Reuters) -The Democratic Republic of Congo will permanently ban cobalt exporters that violate its new quota system, ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo, the world’s biggest producer of cobalt, is ending a seven-month ban on exports and instead ...

The price of cobalt sulphate entering the EV battery supply chain in China duly responded and is now trading over 90% higher than at the start of the year averaging $6,947 a tonne in August (still ...

The cobalt price index fell below $26,000 per tonne as of April 2023, its lowest level since 2019. Indeed, while cobalt demand remains largely steady, there has been a significant increase in supply.

The first months of 2024 saw cobalt take a bearish stance, constrained by excess supply and eroding demand. Cobalt prices faced many headwinds at the beginning of the year, and they pulled the value ...

Prices for cobalt metal continued to contract in Q2 on the back of oversupply. Meanwhile, values for alloy-grade cobalt saw some growth due to increased demand in the aerospace and defense sectors.

Highlights: High metal extractions with 99% Ni, 98% Co and 90.6% Cu confirmed in the second set of bioleaching lab-scale tests on massive sulphides from the Ferguson Lake copper – nickel – cobalt – ...

With the rise of renewable energy and electric vehicles, hydrogen-powered vehicles have attracted growing interest. Prof. Molly Mengjung Li, Assistant Professor of the Department of Applied Physics at ...

Liang Deng's group at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently discovered that a dinuclear cobalt carbonyl complex [(Xantphos)Co2(CO)6] coordinated by the ...