Proponents predict AI will be indispensable to help the industry ramp up the supply of battery metals for the global energy transition to fight climate change.

A challenge is that seafloor mining immediately starts off at a reputational disadvantage.

Macquarie says January's full set of PMIs looks like a potential turning point for the global industrial cycle.

An extra 5.9 million oz. of gold, 3.3 billion pound of copper, 55.4 million oz. of silver and 51 million lb. of molybdenum were added.

The firm produced 264,251 metric tons of copper over the quarter, down 2% from a year earlier.

Vega Mining will acquire from the Nisga’a the rights to five existing annual benefit payment entitlements with projects in the Golden Triangle, in exchange for common shares in Vega’s capital.

Solaris intends to use the funds to advance its flagship Warintza copper project in southeast Ecuador.

The rise was supported by a strong fourth quarter during which 34 million lb. of copper and 369,000 lb. of molybdenum were produced.