Madagascar Reopened Its Mining Register After Sixteen Years
Madagascar mining permits are being issued again after a sixteen-year freeze, reopening graphite, nickel, cobalt and rare earth ground to...
September 4, 2026Topic
Nickel
Motsepe’s ARM Bets Nearly $1 Billion on Platinum and Nickel Rebound
Patrice Motsepe mining bet: ARM approves $973 million to revive the Bokoni platinum mine and restart Nkomati nickel as platinum...
July 23, 2026
Brazil’s Development Bank Backs the Piauí Nickel Project With $19 Million
Brazil's development bank approved one hundred million reais for the Piauí nickel project, its first state backing for the battery-metals...
July 14, 2026
Botswana, the World’s Diamond Capital, Pivots to Critical Minerals
Botswana critical minerals are the new bet: the world's top diamond nation is pushing into copper and nickel as lab-grown...
July 3, 2026
Indonesia’s President in China: aiming for investment boost and trade partnership
The President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, embarked on a trip to China on Thursday with the objective of augmenting the...
July 27, 2023
Brazil’s Vale iron ore production drops 6% in the first quarter 2022
Rio de Janeiro-based Vale announced Tuesday (19) that it ended the first quarter with production of 63.9 million tons of...
April 20, 2022
The West’s hybrid war against Russia could boost nickel exploration in Brazil
Brazil, which has the third-largest nickel reserves in the world, could prove to be an alternative for investment in this...
March 28, 2022
Economists explain signs from China on raw material and commodities imports
On Monday, August 9, news caused considerable volatility in the commodities market, as China is the world's largest buyer of...
August 9, 2021
Some international commodities have wiped out all their 2021 appreciation
Soybean, corn and wheat futures have erased their advance recorded this year, soybean dropping over 20% from the 8-year high...
June 18, 2021