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1 week ago | mining.com | Nick Oxford |Veronica Brown

Nestled beneath Oklahoma’s Wichita Mountains sits a two-story warehouse containing the only machine in the United States capable of refining nickel, a crucial energy transition metal now dominated by China. The facility, owned by startup Westwin Elements, aims to help Oklahoma become the epicenter for US critical minerals processing, a sector the country largely abandoned decades ago.

2 weeks ago | today.westlaw.com | Bo Erickson |Ernest Scheyder |Veronica Brown |David Gregorio

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's tax and spending bill would make it harder for American critical minerals companies to compete with China because it eliminates a tax credit for boosting domestic production of nickel, rare earths...

1 month ago | today.westlaw.com | Eric Onstad |Veronica Brown |Joe Bavier

LONDON (Reuters) -When Fidra Energy acquired a 55-acre (22-hectare) patch of northern England countryside in 2023, its plan to transform it into a 1.45 gigawatt energy storage facility - Europe's largest once completed - was far from a done deal.

1 month ago | mining.com | Hongmei Li |Lewis Jackson |Veronica Brown

Unusually large shipments of copper to the United States are unlikely to abate as long as the threat of tariffs hangs over the market and price premiums for the metal on US-based COMEX make deals profitable for traders and producers, analysts said. Since February, when US President Donald Trump ordered a probe into potential new tariffs on imports of copper vital for electric vehicles, power grids and construction, prices of the metal on COMEX have soared.

1 month ago | mining.com | Divya Rajagopal |Veronica Brown |David Goodman

A Malian judge is expected to order on Thursday the reopening of Barrick Mining’s Loulo-Gounkoto gold mine under new management at the request of Mali’s government, three people familiar with the matter said. The order would represent a major escalation of a dispute between the country and the Canadian miner that has seen operations suspended since January.