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Iron ore price up as China steel futures hit new highs

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MINING.COM Staff Writer | April 23, 2021 | 9:14 am MarketsTop CompaniesChinaLatin AmericaIron Ore Steel futures in China reached new highs as investors weighed the nation’s commitment to lowering production against its strong demand. (Image:junrong / Shutterstock.com) Iron ore futures advanced on Friday, on course for a fifth straight week of gains, as anti-pollution steel output curbs in China and […]

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Battery-metal rush pits miners against marine biologists

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Bloomberg News | April 25, 2021 | 9:27 am Battery MetalsAfricaCanadaUSACobaltManganeseNickel DeepGreen is one of the companies that intends to produce metals from polymetalic rocks, found in deep oceans. (Image courtesy of DeepGreen Metals). Controversial plans to mine the ocean floor face a key test this year when a United Nations body unveils rules that could spur the exploitation

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China opens its borders to billions of dollars of gold imports

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Reuters | April 16, 2021 | 9:14 am IntelligenceMarketsChinaGold Image from World Gold Council via Twitter. China has given domestic and international banks permission to import large amounts of gold into the country, five sources familiar with the matter said, potentially helping to support global gold prices after months of declines. China is the world’s biggest gold

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Iron ore price hits 10-year high on rising steel demand

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MINING.COM Staff Writer | April 16, 2021 | 9:40 am IntelligenceMarketsNewsAustraliaChinaLatin AmericaIron Ore Steelmaking process. (Image by China Baowu Steel) Iron ore prices continued to climb on Friday despite concerns over environmental restrictions in China. Tangshan, China’s top steelmaking city, said last month it will punish firms that either have not taken the steps spelled out under its emergency anti-pollution plan

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Biden’s EV plan would create bull conditions for energy metals — report

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MINING.com Editor | April 9, 2021 | 12:42 pm Battery MetalsIntelligenceChinaEuropeUSACobaltCopperLithium GM EV Ultium Platform. Image from General Motors. Joe Biden’s proposed $2 trillion infrastructure bill would help create bull conditions in commodity markets, particularly in steel and cobalt, lithium, and copper — materials of the energy transition, according to Fastmarkets. READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE ON MINING.COM

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DeepGreen hits backs at firms opposing seafloor mining

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Note from Dudley Pierce BakerDeepGreen is set to go public via a merger with a blank check company/Special Purpose Acquisition Company, Sustainable Opportunity Acquisition Corporation, SOAC.Jeff and I both own the stock warrants on SOAC trading as SOACW on the Nasdaq. The stock warrants will have an expiration date of 5 years from the completion

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Investors flock back to lithium as battery bust turns to boom

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Bloomberg News | March 19, 2021 | 12:04 pm Battery MetalsTop CompaniesAustraliaChinaLatin AmericaLithium (Image courtesy of Lithium Chile). Investors are betting big on a lithium comeback less than three years after prices of the metal used in rechargeable batteries collapsed from a record price and sent miners reeling. Producers of the metal that had been shunned amid

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