https://www.northernontariobusiness.com/ Hometown mine builder on a fast pace to put former INCO asset back into early production by year’s end Seventeen months after acquiring a dormant INCO nickel and copper mine in Sudbury, Magna Mining said it’s ready to begin test mining later this year. The hometown mine developer announced April 23 it has all ... Read more ..read more

https://www.mining-technology.com/ Miners in Australia are feeling the brunt of the global nickel price crash, from mine closures to forecast reductions and government intervention. How did things get so bad and is recovery possible? Annabel Cossins-Smith investigates. The global nickel market has been volatile for years now. The price rollercoaster of 2022 saw prices for the ... Read more ..read more

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/ (Bloomberg) — A little-known Australian company is becoming the Western face of a Chinese nickel behemoth. In under a decade, Nickel Industries Ltd. has gone from a relatively small miner to the world’s sixth-biggest producer of a metal used in products from batteries to stainless steel. Riding a Chinese-led boom in Indonesia’s nickel sector, ... Read more ..read more

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/ Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada and its allies are weighing taking trade action against China and Indonesia in the nickel market, as the two Asian countries tighten their collective grip in the critical mineral. Indonesia has gone from supplying 7 per cent of the global output of nickel to 55 per cent ... Read more ..read more

https://www.northernontariobusiness.com/ Aston Minerals endowed with both gold and nickel deposits at its Edleston Project A promising new nickel sulphide project in the Timmins area is growing in size and tonnage. Aston Minerals has released a new mineral estimate of its two deposits at its Edleston Project, showing a 44 per cent bump in the indicated ... Read more ..read more

https://www.xm.com/ This content was produced in Russia where the law restricts coverage of Russian military operations in Ukraine MOSCOW, April 16 (Reuters) -U.S. and British sanctions imposed on Russian nickel, copper and aluminium will further increase price volatility and supply uncertainty, Russian metals-producing giant Norilsk Nickel said on Tuesday. In their latest round of Ukraine-related ... Read more ..read more

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/ US and UK sanctions on Russian metals will cement China as Moscow’s buyer of last resort for key commodities, and enhance Shanghai’s role as a venue to set prices for materials crucial to the global economy. The London Metal Exchange’s ban on newly produced Russian aluminum, copper and nickel is likely to drive Chinese ... Read more ..read more

https://www.kitco.com/ (Kitco News) – Environmental, social, governance (ESG) initiatives are further delaying mining projects while critical metals are in high demand, creating tension within the mining industry, says Matt Watson, founder of Precious Metals Commodity Management LLC. The other problem is that metals necessary for the green transition are difficult to process, namely nickel, cobalt ... Read more ..read more

https://www.ft.com/ Australian magnate points finger at ‘irresponsible’ standards for processing in Indonesia Australian mining billionaire Andrew Forrest has called on China to demand higher environmental standards from its global supply chain, particularly its companies conducting nickel processing in Indonesia, an industry he accused of “complete environmental irresponsibility”. In an interview with the Financial Times, Forrest ... Read more ..read more

https://www.reuters.com/ MOSCOW, March 29 (Reuters) – Russia’s Nornickel, the world’s largest palladium producer and a major producer of high-grade nickel, said on Friday that some clients in the European Union had refused to buy products made with Russian metals. Although Nornickel itself and its metals is not a target of Western sanctions some consumers are ... Read more ..read more