U.S. firms are buying cobalt metal produced in Indonesia by China's Lygend Resources that does not incur the tariffs placed ...

Cobalt futures prices in China jumped more than 9% on Monday fuelled by China's strategic buying of cobalt and talks of extension of export ban from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the top supplier ...

Both cobalt-copper mines are located in the Democratic Republic of Congo. American mining giant Freeport-McMoRan sold its stake in the Tenke Fungurume Mine to CMOC Group – then known as China ...

China plans to add to its strategic reserves ... demand is increasing and geopolitical tensions are running high. Cobalt, copper, nickel and lithium are among the metals the government plans ...

But as far as critical minerals are concerned, China has "a virtual monopoly on copper and cobalt production", according to Joseph Cihunda, from the University of Kinshasa's law faculty.

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. firms are buying cobalt metal produced in Indonesia by China's Lygend Resources that does not incur the tariffs placed by the Trump administration on imports direct from ...