But clean-energy technologies are advancing rapidly enough that trying to imagine the industry’s needs 75 years from now is a ...

Sectors such as aerospace and manufacturing were negatively impacted by COVID-19, but the battery sector continued to grow. That’s big news for cobalt, one of the key metals included in battery ...

Cobalt has risen in recent years due to supply chain difficulties and the metal's necessity in many lithium-ion battery cathodes, with prices peaking in March and April 2022 at over US$80,000 per MT.

Cobalt is an industrial metal, prized for its physical properties, which has a wide variety of applications in electronics, metalworking, art and more. Most notably, it’s used to create the ...

Most of the world’s cobalt comes from the copper belt, which runs through the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Zambia. The Times in the UK writes: ...