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Zinc: prices above 2019 highs
While mining production has rebounded strongly from last year's volumes, delays at key projects such as Glencore's Zhairem mine in Kazakhstan and Lundin's Neves Corvo expansion in Portugal have kept production below pre-pandemic levels. But these, and other capacity...
Coal: prices rebound as never before under the Trump age
Donald Trump promised to revive the coal industry, but it is President Joe Biden who is seeing a big comeback for the fossil fuel. US power plants are on track to burn 23% more coal this year, the first increase since 2013, despite Biden’s ambitious plan to...
Plastic waste: ExxonMobil updates its recycling plan
ExxonMobil has updated its plan to chemically recycle difficult-to-recover plastic waste by announcing the construction of a facility in Baytown, Texas, which is expected to be operational by the end of 2022 with an initial capacity of 30,000 tonnes per year. This...
Aluminium: 13-year highs reached
Aluminium has risen to its highest level since 2008 as a deepening energy crisis squeezes supplies of the energy-intensive metal that is used in everything from beer cans to iPhones. Each tonne of metal requires around 14 megawatt hours of energy to produce, enough to...