Articles On Mineral Commodities (ASX:MRC)

Prices for cobalt (+11.5%), graphite (+1.8%) and lithium (who even knows) continue rising into the New Year Customers turn to the next class of lithium producers to secure future supply Vulcan, Lepidico and Liontown the latest ASX stocks t...

David Baker has quit as Mineral Commodities chairman just 15 months after he taking over from besieged Mark Caruso.

Mineral Commodities (MRC) announces board reshuffle as Chairman and non-executive director, David Baker resigns According to MRC, Mr Baker’s decision is due to personal reasons and the company thanked him for his contribution over the past...

The ASX is down -0.3% today with the information technology sector taking the cake for the biggest dip at ~3%, followed by the healthcare sector at more than 1.5%. The ASX Emerging Companies Index (XEC) has flatlined. For the second day in...

Our High Voltage column wraps all the news driving ASX stocks with exposure to lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel and vanadium. Rio Tinto (ASX:RIO) thinks we’ll need 60 Jadars, a unit of measurement based on the massive scale of its proposed...

ASX-listed Mineral Commodities has delivered a breakthrough in the purification of large flake graphite for use in battery anode material without the use of traditional and highly toxic hydrofluoric acid.

Most people are familiar with graphite because of its use in the humble pencil or in anodes for lithium-ion batteries, but it seems graphite has plenty more to offer. Several new and diverse applications, as well as a global supply squeeze...

Mineral Commodities has beefed up its mineral resource estimate at the company’s Western Strandline deposit in South Africa to a hearty 193 million tonnes grading 9.5 per cent total heavy minerals.

Mineral Commodities (MRC) updates the mineral resource estimate (MRE) for the Western Strandline at the Tormin Inland Strands deposit in South Africa The MRE increased 82 per cent from the previous estimate and now reads 193.2 million ton...

Mineral Commodities (MRC), through its subsidiary Skaland Graphite AS, updates the JORC mineral resource and maiden ore reserve at the Trælan Graphite Deposit in Norway The mineral resource is estimated at 1.84 million tonnes at 23.6 per c...

A re-evaluation of the resource at Mineral Commodities Traelen graphite project in Norway has almost doubled the likely size of the high-grade deposit, indicating a mine life of at least 13 years.

Lithium boom to continue in 2022: S&P Global Elon Musk under pressure to sell ~$US21bn worth of Tesla stock Our High Voltage column wraps all the news driving ASX stocks with exposure to lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel, rare earths,...

China’s ongoing energy shortage starts to affect domestic battery materials production Tesla ditches nickel, cobalt as prices soar Pilbara Minerals’ (ASX:PLS) third spodumene auction unofficially scheduled for October 26 Weekly small cap s...

Our High Voltage column wraps all the news driving ASX stocks with exposure to lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel, rare earths, and vanadium.   Lithium carbonate prices are going gangbusters off the back of limited supply and stable lithium-...

Our High Voltage column wraps all the news driving ASX stocks with exposure to lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel, rare earths, and vanadium.   While the outlook for commodities like iron ore has deteriorated – and is expected to deteriorate...

ASX-listed Mineral Commodities has hit the go button on plans for downstream graphite processing with a decision to demerge its Norwegian graphite assets and press ahead with a dedicated active anode materials plant to feed the booming batt...

Mineral Commodities plans to demerge its Norwegian graphite assets into a separate company focused on downstream battery anode production. This follows a strategic review which found that creating a pure-play, integrated, battery anode mate...

Our High Voltage column wraps all the news driving ASX stocks with exposure to lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel and vanadium.   Due to hit the bourse Tuesday is PPK Group (ASX:PPK) spin out Li-S Energy (ASX:LIS) which may have developed a...

ASX-listed Mineral Commodities has made a breakthrough in its quest to add value to its flake graphite product with research by CSIRO returning outstanding purity results. The company has its eye on environmentally friendly production of hi...

Purification tests carried out on graphite concentrates from Mineral Commodities’ Skaland and Munglinup have successfully produced battery grade spherical graphite. The test work carried out by Australian national science agency CSIRO conti...

The ASX regained some lost ground from yesterday’s bloodbath, but closed this week lower than what it began. The ASX 200 gained 0.5% to close at 7,407 points while the ASX Emerging Companies Index rose 2.45% to close at 2,469. Most sectors...

ASX-listed Mineral Commodities is producing strong results from drilling at its Traelen graphite mine in Norway, declaring the numbers confirm the high-grade resource. Aerial surveys next month will help guide an expanded drilling program n...

Graphite player Mineral Commodities has released new high-grade results from a 3000m down dip resource drilling program at its Trælen mine in Norway.  Best results include: 13.2m at 25.6% Total Graphitic Carbon (TGC) from 144.7m; 32.65m at...

Well credentialed minerals sands mining executive Jacob Deysel has taken the helm of ASX-listed Mineral Commodities which coincides with a significant ramp up in production at the company’s South African mineral sands project.

Roskill forecasts demand for nickel chemicals to grow by over 500% between 2021 and 2030 It’s not just metals: battery makers are also getting hit with sharp price rises and supply shortages for non-active materials Several lithium players...

Battery minerals player Mineral Commodities has taken an important step in its ambition to move to production of graphite anodes for lithium-ion batteries, signing a Memorandum of Understanding with Forge Nano for the use of an atomic coati...

Mineral Commodities has inked a Memorandum Of Understanding for the use of Forge Nano Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) coating tech, which could significantly improve the performance of MRC’s active anode materials for the battery sector. The...

Our High Voltage column wraps all the news driving ASX stocks with exposure to lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel and vanadium. Last week, ASX lithium stocks went mental. The spark was Pilbara Minerals (ASX:PLS)  with its announcement that t...

Mineral Commodities has completed a productive quarter across its operations in both South Africa and Norway. The dynamic mineral producer has hit a series of milestones at the Tormin mineral sands operation and its new Traelen graphite dep...

It took a full five years for electric vehicle sales to reach 1 million in 2015. Since then, things have gone exponential. In 2021, we are hitting those numbers in weeks and months, not years. In China about 235,000 plug-ins were sold in Ju...

Aussie shares rebounded today following rises in the US and Europe overnight, after having fallen for the previous two days. The ASX 200 regained 0.78%, with all 11 sectors in the green except for Industrials and IT. Healthcare and financia...

Mineral Commodities is seeing strong potential for continuation of high-grade graphite mineralisation down-dip of historical resources at its Traelen graphite operation in Norway, with spectacular results reported from ongoing resource dril...

Mineral Commodities has reinforced its Trælen mine’s position as one of the world’s highest grade operating flake graphite mines with drilling returning up to 44.5% TGC. The top hit of 5m at 44.5% total graphitic carbon (TGC) from 81m withi...

Our High Voltage column wraps all the news driving ASX stocks with exposure to lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel and vanadium.   Only four battery gigafactories — super-sized producers of lithium-ion battery cells — were being planned in 20...

Closing Bell is Stockhead’s daily recap of the ASX’s biggest winners and losers. Data is taken at the market close – at 4.10pm AEDT. Stocks highlighted in yellow rose (or fell) after making announcements during intraday trade. WINNERS Scrol...

A near doubling in the price of Iluka Resources (ASX: ILU) and a sharp upward move by Astron Corporation (ASX: ATR) has restored investor interest in titanium minerals and zircon, but before buying into one of Australia’s oldest mining indu...

Stockhead’s Top 10 at 10, published at 10.15am each trading day, highlights the best (and worst) performing ASX small caps in morning trade using live data. It’s a short, sharp update to help frame the trading day by showing the biggest mov...

Australian shares appeared to shrug off the latest COVID-19 lockdowns for much of the day, but ultimately closed lower on the day. The ASX200 finished 0.01 per cent down at 7,307, while the ASX Emerging Companies Index fell 1.22 per cent, c...

Around 1 million residents of some inner-Sydney suburbs are to stay at home until next Friday, after the latest government-imposed lockdown. The restrictions will begin at midnight today, and last until midnight on Friday, July 2. To market...

Closing Bell is Stockhead’s daily recap of the ASX’s biggest winners and losers during the trading day. Data is taken at the market close – at 4.10pm AEDT. Stocks highlighted in yellow rose (or fell) after making announcements during intrad...

Summary The ASX 200 sets a new record by crossing 7,400 level for the first time. The benchmark trades higher by 23.50 points or 0.32% at 7,403 by afternoon. Nine of the 11 sectors are trading higher, with energy gaining the most, ris...

Our High Voltage column wraps all the news driving ASX battery metals stocks with exposure to lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel, rare earths, and vanadium.   The structural shift from fossil fuels to green energy is all but locked in. Now t...

Mineral Commodities has initiated decline mining at its Traelen graphite operation in Norway as it looks to build concentrate production from Skaland, one of the world’s significant natural flake graphite sources, from the current 10,000 to...

Mineral Commodities has started a new stage of graphite mining at the Traelen mine to support continued processing operations at its Skaland project. This involves the commencement of down-dip mining for the first time in the mine’s operati...

Closing Bell is Stockhead’s daily recap of the ASX’s biggest winners and losers during the trading day. Data is taken at the market close – at 4.10pm AEDT. Stocks highlighted in yellow rose (or fell) after making announcements during intrad...

The price difference between electric vehicles and their conventional petrol/diesel peers – a key obstacle to widespread EV adoption – is closing at an accelerated rate. Affordability = more EVs on the roads = more demand for battery metals...

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Mineral Commodities continues to hit paydirt in South Africa, with drilling on its Eastern Strandline deposit returning intercepts of high-grade mineral sands including 7 metres at an impressive 42.1 per cent total heavy minerals from 31m d...

Mineral Commodities will gain access to funding and exploration technology for its activities in Norway under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Smart Exploration Project after signing up to the EU initiative.

Our High Voltage column wraps all the news driving ASX stocks with exposure to lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel, rare earths, and vanadium. With some 85 per cent of the world’s cobalt originating from jurisdictions with higher levels of co...