Vale (NYSE: VALE) has reached two separate agreements to sell a total 13% stake in its transition metals business for $3.4 billion, aiming to boost its copper and nickel output. The deals would value the company’s base metals unit, Vale Base Metals (VBM), at ...

First Quantum Minerals Ltd. started production at what is set to turn into Africa’s biggest nickel mine, furthering Zambia’s aim of becoming a key supplier of battery metals for the electric vehicle revolution.

China’s Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt said on Tuesday it will invest in a $200 million nickel sulfate project in Indonesia, expanding its production of the key battery raw material.

Pacific Nickel Mines (ASX: PNM) has submitted a notice for the final US$19 million of a US$22 million loan from mining giant Glencore to help develop its Kolosori Nickel Project in the Solomon Islands.

Glencore has struck a deal to buy the outstanding shares of PolyMet Mining, gaining full control of a mine development company that holds a 50% stake in a copper and nickel joint venture with Teck Resources.

Nickel sulphide explorer Nordic Nickel (ASX:NNL) has defined further wide zones of nickel sulphide mineralisation at the Hotinvaara prospect within its flagship Pulju Nickel Project in northern Finland.

Indonesian officials are investigating whether there have been illegal nickel ore shipments to China, more than three years after Jakarta banned exports of the commodity, its mining minister said on 7 July.

Chinese firms mastered a process that unlocked Indonesia’s ore for use in making EV batteries.Across the Indonesian archipelago, new industrial plants are going up to process chunks of nickel ore for use in electric-car batteries. Five years ago, there were n...