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Financially settled contracts for metals have grown in popularity over the last 12 months, and this likely played a role in a change of ownership at Traxys

Glencore’s new chief executive officer Gary Nagle is learning a key management lesson the hard way, namely: “You can’t please all of the people all of the time

The Material Recycling Association of India’s annual International Metals Recycling Conference (IMRC) on February 2-4 saw the event return to southern city of Kochi for the first time since 2019 and, judging by the demand for rooms in the run-up to the event, there has been a massive increase in the numbers attending

Global commodities trader Trafigura is suing Indian businessman Prateek Gupta and companies connected with him after discovering an allegedly elaborate scheme of nickel fraud

Battery materials firm Umicore has started the industrialization of its high lithium, manganese (HLM) cathode active material (CAM), it said, and was targeting commercial production and use in electric vehicles in 2026

The Geological Survey of India discovered a new lithium deposit containing 5.9 million tonnes of inferred lithium resources in the country’s Salal-Haimana area of the Reasi District of Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian government said on Thursday February 9

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