Driven by a cobalt price rally and cost reduction, some copper-cobalt miners are actively assessing restart and expansion opportunities. The cobalt price has had strong momentum since the beginning of ...

Idaho’s Cobalt Belt is a 34-mile-long desirable stretch of ore tucked under the Salmon River Mountains that’s considered “globally significant” by mining companies. And miners are interested in that ...

(Bloomberg) -- The world’s No. 1 cobalt miner is sounding the alarm over the shrinking role of the metal in electric vehicle batteries. Chinese company CMOC Group Ltd., which has been churning out ...

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With electric vehicle sales forecast to increase by 30% annually, the battery sector will become increasingly important for cobalt demand Cobalt futures have seen wide adoption since launching in ...

To investors, natural resources are known as the "commodities" market. This is a major sector of investing, with both professionals and retail investors alike putting their money into assets like ...

Many electric vehicles are powered by lithium-ion batteries that rely on cobalt — a scarce, expensive metal with high environmental and social costs. A team of researchers from Japanese and French ...

The first cobalt mine in America in decades opens Friday in Idaho. The metal used in electric vehicle batteries is in big demand yet analysts say the environmental costs are also high. And now to ...

Sectors such as aerospace and manufacturing were negatively impacted by COVID-19, but the battery sector continued to grow. That’s big news for cobalt, one of the key metals included in battery ...