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...West Texas Intermediate, the US marker, rose 2.6 per cent....
...Additional reporting by Patrick Temple-West...
...Shares in Gold Fields, which operates nine mines across Australia, Peru, South Africa and west Africa, slumped a fifth on the day the bid was announced in May but bounced back by a similar percentage when...
...“Without recycling [battery] materials, it is unlikely that mining and refining will be able to keep up with demand,” analysts at Credit Suisse write in a new report....
...But even among the individuals that the west has tried to isolate and marginalise, Prigozhin is a special case....
...We will see much more refining capacity coming online in the West but it can’t happen within two or three years.”...
...The implosion of marquee trading shop FTX has injected fresh urgency into the UK government’s pledge to regulate the “wild west” crypto sector....
...Analysts from Citi noted that the company’s Sonora project, in north-west Mexico, was expected to account for about 5 per cent to 8 per cent of Ganfeng’s total lithium output by 2025....
...Before we get into the newsletter today, make sure you check out Myles’s lively dispatch from West Virginia, where the green energy push is colliding with a culture and economy still entrenched in the coal...
...Cash payments, sham consulting agreements and inflated invoices were all used by traders at the Swiss-based mining company to bribe government officials in west Africa and Latin America in return for preferential...
...(Patrick Temple-West) Japan tries to catch up with the west on corporate governance Spring’s budding cherry blossoms represent a new beginning for many Japanese....
...I started reading Ramaswamy’s book Woke, Inc half-expecting a self-indulgent rant in the vein of Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s ravings on this subject....
...You take a company, and let’s say in the mining industry. You gather a lot of data as to the size of the company, the operations, the type of mining that they do, the number of employees they have....
...At the FT’s Mining Summit this month, BHP chief executive Mike Henry boasted that the world’s biggest mining group had a “really ambitious” plan to reduce its enormous carbon footprint....
...controversial Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to Texas — which was cancelled by US President Joe Biden earlier this year — and is funding another export pipeline development from the oil sands to Canada’s west...
...They are mostly clustered around the Permian Basin oilfields of west Texas, where CO2 is injected into wells to squeeze out stubborn crude oil deposits....
...also work with Tesla to trace battery raw materials using blockchain, the technology behind bitcoin, and collaborate on how to use renewable energy and battery storage to lower the carbon footprint of its mining...
...The $285m Bighorn Solar array, developed by Lightsource BP just outside Pueblo, the city that made much of the rail track that snakes across America’s west, will be one of the largest solar facilities east...
...Weekly Toyo Keizai magazine estimates that Japan Inc will face a shortfall of 3,000 outside directors next year....
...And I’d always been very interested in Russia’s relations, the Soviet Union relations with the west....
...It is a development Moral Money will follow closely (and keep reading for developments about a US debt-for-nature scheme) — Patrick Temple-West ‘Sustainability Inc.’ falls short?...
...The fact that Succession is recognisable from reality makes it more compelling (see also: The Crown, The West Wing)....
...Toshiba’s big shareholder showdown Few stories covered by the FT’s Tokyo bureau have encapsulated quite so much about Japan Inc, corporate governance, the consequences of epic M&A failure and the changing...
...An unexpected copper discovery in Cornwall, south-west England, has raised the prospect of a mining revival in Poldark country more than two decades after the closure of the county’s last mine drew the 4,000...
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on December 16 2019. @2019 Nikkei Inc....
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