Alex Kozul-Wright

As part of continued efforts to resolve its long-running trade conflict with the United States, China recently raised its production quota of rare earth metals to a record 132,000 tonnes. Additionally, customs data published in January showed that China’s exports of rare earth magnets to the US increased

Late last month, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) outlined a plan to assume monopoly control of the country’s artisanal cobalt sector. A newly created state-owned company, Enterprise Generale du Cobalt (EGC), will be given standalone rights to purchase the metal from the informal mining industry. Combined with sulphur,

Oil prices have nosedived since the outbreak of the coronavirus, with Brent crude down 25 per cent since the start of January. The outbreak of Covid-19 has almost certainly pitched China’s economy into contractionary territory, disrupting everything from manufacturing supply chains to property construction. The grim economic outlook was

The sharp contraction in global economic activity prompted by Covid-19 has sent oil prices into a tailspin. Brent crude, already on the backfoot since the outbreak of the coronavirus, suffered an additional leg-down this month when two of the world’s biggest producing nations – Russia and Saudi Arabia – set the