While record gold and silver prices are garnering most of the headlines as of late, a number of commodities have posted their ...

Supplies started to tighten last year after the Democratic Republic of Congo suspended cobalt exports ‌in February ⁠2025 after prices ⁠dropped to nine-year lows around $10 a pound or $22,000 a ton due ...

The cobalt market entered 2025 under pressure from a prolonged supply glut, but the balance shifted sharply as the year unfolded, due almost entirely to intervention from the Democratic Republic of ...

The main one is Indonesia, where cobalt is mined as a by-product of nickel. But even allowing for increased Indonesian production this year, it won't be enough to fill the gap left by Congo's ...

Cobalt is used in a wide variety of industrial applications, with lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and energy storage systems as the largest demand segment. As an important battery ...

That vulnerability has been exposed by the export controls imposed by the Democratic Republic of Congo, the largest source of ...