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China plans to buy up to 15,000 metric tons of cobalt metal from local Chinese producers over the next few months for domestic stockpiles, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, adding... -May 23, 2024 at 02:54 am EDT - MarketScreener

Copper and cobalt produced by companies, including Glencore and CMOC, are stranded in Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo , due to a truckers strike that started in late October, four sources...

The UK’s Business and Trade Secretary says Chinese-made products can’t be excluded from the battery ecosystem.

Janet Yellen has said that the United States needs to be wary of clean energy supply chains becoming overly concentrated.

A new report showed this week that China is intent on defending its already huge global market share in  battery metal supply chains

Investing News Network - April 17, 2023 Last year, cobalt mine output saw its largest increase ever, jumping 23 percent year-on-year, Darton Commodities says in... | April 19, 2023

China’s CMOC Group is expected to become the world’s biggest producer of cobalt—toppling Glencore from the top spot

The race to secure sufficient battery metals supplies heats up in 2023 and China is now expected to control one-third of global lithium supply by 2025

In order to get a truckload of copper out of Africa, Chanda Kulungika must spend a week sitting in one of the world’s longest traffic jams.

DRC, the world’s largest cobalt producer, is struggling to impose structure among the artisanal miners in the country.