Tungsten: Drakelands operator Wolf Minerals goes into administration

Tungsten miner Wolf Minerals ceased trading shares on the AIM and appointed administrators on 10 October, after it failed to conclude discussions with its key financial stakeholders on securing longer term funding solutions for the company’s operations.  Wolf noted that it was no longer able to meet its short-term working… Read more

Electric vehicles: EU Council agrees on more stringent CO2 2030 targets to create a more likely “EV only” scenario

After long discussions during the last two years between different EU bodies, the EU Council agreed on October 10th to a 35% CO2 emission reduction by 2030 from the 95g/Km agreed for 2021. The result of this reduction will be a limit of 61.75g/Km of CO2 by 2030. EU CO2… Read more

North Korea tipped to be a significant future player in Magnesia industry

Alison Saxby, director at Roskill, spoke to Proactive’s Andrew Scott following the release of Roskill’s new 2018 report for magnesium compounds. Saxby says China has dominated world magnesia supply for decades, accounting for 70% of world production capacity and 60% of world production. She adds supply tightness affecting certain magnesia… Watch now

Demand for nickel sulphate set to explode as industry excitement builds

Thomas Höhne-Sparborth, senior economic analyst at Roskill, discusses with Proactive Investors the outlook for nickel sulphate. Nickel sulphate is the key material used to produce precursor materials for lithium-ion batteries. Höhne-Sparborth suspects forecasts that nickel sulphate demand will increase five fold over the next decade are conservative and says the… Watch now

Antimony to experience modest growth over next decade

Jack Bedder and Nils Backeberg from Roskill discuss with Proactive Investors their near term expectations for demand and supply of Antimony. Antimony is mostly used in flame retardants and lead-acid batteries. Together these end-uses accounted for 84% of antimony demand in 2017.