Europe’s Cobalt Refining Strategy Depends on Supply Security and Recycling
Europe’s efforts to strengthen battery-material supply chains face a policy gap in cobalt refining, which remains outside the direct scope of the current Carbon Border...
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Europe’s Lithium Processing Projects Face Competition Without CBAM Protection
European lithium-processing investments remain exposed to international competition because the principal raw and refined forms of lithium can enter the EU without a charge under...
European Nickel Processing Faces Uneven Carbon Border Protection
Europe’s nickel-processing industry operates under different carbon-border conditions depending on the form of metal produced and its end market. Ferronickel falls within the EU Carbon...
CBAM Changes Cost Dynamics for DRI, Pig Iron and Steel Feedstocks
Europe’s transition from blast-furnace steelmaking to direct reduced iron (DRI) and electric-arc furnace (EAF) production is changing the economics of metallic feedstocks, with the EU’s...
EU Considers Extending Carbon Border Rules to Critical Mineral Processing
Europe’s carbon-border policy faces potential expansion into copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, graphite and rare earths, materials essential to electricity grids, batteries, wind turbines, electronics and...
kraća verzija Europe’s Critical Minerals Strategy Advances Ahead of CBAM Expansion
Europe is expanding domestic mining, refining and recycling capacity for critical raw materials, while the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) remains focused on six original...
EU Carbon Border Rules Leave Strategic Mineral Imports Outside CBAM
Europe’s efforts to strengthen domestic critical mineral supply chains and reduce industrial emissions are advancing under separate regulatory frameworks, leaving copper, lithium, cobalt, nickel and...
Savannah Advances Barroso Lithium Project with Boticas Bypass Approval
Savannah Resources has secured a positive conditional environmental decision for the planned 16.5-kilometre Boticas bypass in Portugal, removing an important infrastructure hurdle for its Barroso...
Kodal Minerals Secures Option to Acquire 80% of Ghana’s Asamankese Lithium Project
Kodal Minerals has expanded its West African lithium portfolio by signing a binding agreement to acquire up to 80% of the Asamankese project in Ghana,...
Cobalt Blue Secures Swiss Trader Offtake Term Sheet for Kwinana Cobalt Refinery
Cobalt Blue Holdings has signed an offtake term sheet with Swiss commodities trader STG Metals for up to 1,000 tonnes of cobalt metal annually from...