China imported 507 tonnes of cobalt metal in March, representing a 133.64% month-on-month increase from 217 tonnes in February, the country’s customs data showed

After an extended consultation period, Fastmarkets has amended its specified brands for cobalt standard grade and cobalt alloy grade. It will also clarify the duty status for the specifications of those prices.

The prices for standard-grade cobalt metal in China and Europe narrowed on Wednesday April 5, sparked by weaker market sentiment resulting from a fall in cobalt intermediate prices in Asia

Fastmarkets proposes to launch weekly price assessments for black mass payable indicators, delivered South Korea, to provide insight to Asia’s burgeoning battery recycling sector.

Market participants in the cobalt supply chain continue to face logistical hurdles when looking to ship out material from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to the port of Durban in South Africa

China’s nickel producer Lygend said on Sunday March 26 that it had made its first batch of nickel sulfate products in Indonesia on Saturday, becoming the first electric vehicle (EV) battery-grade nickel sulfate project in the country to achieve production

An increasingly fierce price war in China’s domestic automotive sector for electric vehicles (EVs) and traditional vehicles in recent months has dealt another blow to battery raw materials prices, sources told Fastmarkets

Prices for cobalt metal have witnessed a sustained rally and recovery in recent weeks, after hitting lows at the beginning of the year, even while market participants see challenging conditions on the supply side in the longer term

The publication of a number of Fastmarkets’ price assessments was delayed on Thursday March 16 for technical reasons.

Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have been buying equity in miners to secure access to battery raw materials, but David Brocas, co-founder and managing partner of Voltaire Minerals Partners, contends that the offtake agreements may not be in the best interest of miners unless carefully structured