For a background on the cobalt sector you can read our recent article:Cobalt price 5 year price chart - Price = USD 48,570/t or USD 22.03/lb (source)As shown in the chart above cobalt prices have ...

Potential tariffs and trade disputes are causing volatility in the prices of metals like copper and steel, as companies adjust their sourcing strategies. Battery metals, specifically lithium and ...

An article we missed from last month, on December 2 SunSirs reported: Cobalt supply crisis persists, prices poised to reach new heights. Minmetals Securities recently released its Nonferrous Monthly ...

Cobalt prices are surging after the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the world’s largest producer, extended its export ban by three months in a bid to address global oversupply and stabilize ...

The cobalt market entered 2025 under pressure from a prolonged supply glut, but the balance shifted sharply as the year unfolded, due almost entirely to intervention from the Democratic Republic of ...

LONDON (Reuters) -Demand for cobalt will rise faster than supply, allowing the market to reduce the 2024 surplus in coming years and swing to a deficit in the early 2030s, the Cobalt Institute said in ...

Cobalt is used in a wide variety of industrial applications, with lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and energy storage systems as the largest demand segment. As an important battery ...

Shares of Chinese cobalt producers rose after the Democratic Republic of Congo announced a plan to replace a months-long ban on shipments with a system of export quotas that’s set to start in October.

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi defended a decision to put a quota on cobalt exports as a way to increase his country’s profit from a trade he says it should dominate.

Sources expect the miner to sell the material to the US under Project Vault, an initiative to stockpile critical minerals ...