Special reports

The World Copper Conference 2021 will be held virtually on the 12th and 13th of April.

In 2021, Peru’s copper production is forecast to bounce back by 10.4%, to reach 2.4 million t, reports GlobalData.

In the March 2021 issue of Global Mining Review, Mark Upton, Malin Purba, Sri Sekar, and Joseph Figueiredo from Deloitte provide a comprehensive overview of the future of lithium, and the effect of renewable energy and electric vehicles on the lithium mining industry. This special report lists all the references contained within that article.

Total metals and mining industry cross border M&A deals worth US$7.7 billion were announced globally in 4Q20, according to GlobalData’s deals database.

Nathan Masih-Hanneghan (Cooke, Young, & Keidan LLP) comments on the implications of the recent ‘Okpabi and others vs Royal Dutch Shell Plc and another’ case in the Supreme Court for mining companies.

Global gold ETFs lost 84.7 t (-US$4.6 billion, -2% AUM) in February, marking outflows for the third time in 4 months, and the seventh worst historical monthly holdings loss, according to the World Gold Council.

The Peruvian mining industry is reportedly on course to have one of the fastest post-pandemic economic recoveries in the world in 2021.

GlobalData is expecting global silver production to rise in 2021 after output was impacted by COVID-19 in 2020.

Gold production in West Africa’s leading markets is expected to increase by 2.7% in 2021 to 8 million ounces and grow to 8.4 million oz by 2024, according to GlobalData.

Decipher’s specialised Tailings Monitoring & Governance solution combines a large range of data sources to significantly streamline the complex and costly process of tailings monitoring, management and reporting.

According to new World Gold Council data, global gold ETFs saw inflows of 13.8 t (US$1 billion, 0.4%) in January, after two consecutive months of outflows in November and December, which had totalled 148.8 t.

The global crusher backing materials market is slated to reach a valuation amounting to US$33 million by the year 2030, according to Fact.MR’s recently published report on the subject.

CRU Group have tracked down the countries who produce the largest amount of gold each year finding that Asia was the largest producer, with China alone producing 370 t of gold in 2020.

IDTechEx’s new report, ‘Materials for Electric Vehicle Battery Cells and Packs 2021-2031’, identifies and analyses trends in the materials used for the assembly and production of battery cells and battery packs in the EV market.

Brian C. Savage, CEO of Avellana Gold, provides an overview of the investment experience in Ukraine.