Cobalt spot prices spiked 67% higher for the month following the DRC ban on cobalt exports for 4 months, to balance the ...

As renewable energy gathers steam around the world, the harms of mining its mineral components continue to grow. On the ...

House subcommittee hears that the cobalt-rich African nation’s population is suffering as ruling elites and their partners ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the world's largest cobalt producer, is contemplating an extension to its cobalt ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo may extend a suspension of cobalt exports beyond a planned four-month period as it considers ways to maintain higher prices for the electric-vehicle battery material, ...

Copper and cobalt producer Chemaf Resources Ltd. has abandoned a deal to sell itself to Norin Mining Ltd., in a potential ...

The quotas will be enforced in two parts, one focusing on exports and the other on local mineral transformation.

Congo’s mining industry, which is also the world’s top supplier of cobalt and the second-biggest source of copper, is dominated by Chinese companies. Chemaf and Norin have decided to let the ...

A Congolese ministerial committee recommended measures to bolster a temporary ban on cobalt exports, including working with ...

Cobalt prices have been in the doldrums for a very long time, but recorded their first monthly gain in over a year in ...

Donald Trump has been upending the world order since his return to the White House in January. In this three-part series, we ...

The DRC seeks to offer key minerals to the U.S., but rebel forces and China largely control access to these vital rare earth ...