April Archives

China is likely to overtake Japan as the world’s top car exporter this year, with industry executives predicting shipments of up to 4.5 million units, on the back of the growing manufacturing and technological heft of the nation’s electric-vehicle makers. At the Shanghai Auto Show that started on Tuesday, more than a dozen leading domestic carmakers, including SAIC Motor, […]

April 25 (Reuters) – An agreement on royalties between Congo’s state miner and China’s CMOC (603993.SS) has been reached, paving the way for the resumption of minerals exports from the world’s second largest cobalt mine, Congo’s finance minister said late on Monday. Copper and cobalt exports from Tenke Fungurume Mining (TFM) were suspended in July after an escalation in […]

The settlement of Uis in a remote part of Namibia seems an unlikely hotspot for a mineral cold war over the future of electric vehicles. Uis lies in the arid hills of Erongo, a large and sparsely populated province of the south-west African country. For decades the only signs of its mineral wealth were the […]