Abaxx Exchange Pte Ltd plans to launch its new nickel sulfate futures contract by the end of this year and is looking at other contracts in the battery raw materials space, its president told Fastmarkets in a recent interview

Australia-based cobalt and nickel supplier Jervois Global has opted to 'moderate' the pace of restart operations at its Sao Miguel Paulista (SMP) cobalt and nickel refinery in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Fastmarkets has corrected its assessments of the black mass payable indicators, cif South Korea, for both nickel and cobalt, which were published incorrectly on Wednesday August 16 due to a back-end calculation error.

Fastmarkets is launching an assessment of the lithium payable as part of its set of weekly price assessments for black mass, CIF South Korea, starting on Wednesday August 16.

Brazilian miner Vale has signed a binding agreement with Manara Minerals of Saudi Arabia under which the latter will buy a stake in Vale Base Metals (VBM), the holding entity for the South American company’s Energy Transition Metals (ETM) business, it announced on Thursday July 27

Base metal futures on the London Metal Exchange are showing little signs of change as China's potential economic stimulus failed to materialize in June causing sentiment of rebounding Chinese demand to dampen

Chinese participants are mulling over nickel sulfate exports into neighboring Japan and South Korea, with the main driver the regional price gap between China and these countries, Fastmarkets heard on Tuesday June 27

China will extend its tax breaks for the purchase of new energy vehicles (NEVs) between 2024 and 2027

Fastmarkets proposes to amend the specifications for its weekly payable indicators for black mass in South Korea.

Luxembourg-headquartered Wave Nickel is investing close to $300 million to make nickel-cobalt mixed hydroxide precipitate (MHP) in Midwestern Brazil with a new proprietary microwave technology, it told Fastmarkets