A contraction continued in the cobalt market during the year’s third quarter, with metal values falling from US$27,151.50 per metric ton (MT) on July 1 to US$24,299 by the end of September. The 10 percent decline is part of a larger 16.56 percent year-to-date contraction. “This quarter saw minimal pricing…
TGI Fridays, an American casual dining chain, said on Saturday that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after grappling with prolonged financial challenges and a collapsed deal with UK-based Hostmore. In a filing with the U.S. bankruptcy court for the Northern District of Texas, the company listed both…
Angry residents booed and threw eggs at Spain’s King Felipe and Queen Letizia as they visited the Valencia region, where more than 200 people have died in devastating floods. The king faced chants of “murderers” as he hard-hit visited Paiporta, just outside of Valencia city, along with Prime Minister Pedro…
A female student stripped to her underwear outside her university in Iran in what some student and rights groups say was a protest against the country’s strict Islamic dress code. A video circulating on social media and shared by rights group Amnesty International shows the woman sat outside the university…
A smog-choked province in eastern Pakistan has issued a rare plea for cross-border collaboration with India, as major cities in both countries endure severe air pollution that risks the health of millions. Officials in Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province of 127 million people, have drafted a letter to the Indian…
Maumere, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency said Monday that at least six people have died as a series of volcanic eruptions widens on the remote island of Flores. The eruption at Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki just after midnight on Monday spewed thick brownish ash as high as…
The number of new marriages recorded in China is on course to fall to the lowest level in decades this year, official data shows, as the country’s demographic crisis deepens despite a sweeping government campaign to boost matrimony and encourage births. Plummeting marriages – and births – pose a major…
Elixir Energy Limited (“Elixir” or the “Company”) is pleased to provide an update on a new resource booking for its 100% owned ATP 2077, located in the Taroom Trough in Queensland, Australia. HIGHLIGHTS Prospective resources of 712 billion cubic feet (2U) booked in Sub-Block B of ATP 2077 Farmout campaign…
In conformity with the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules (‘DTRs’) of the Financial Conduct Authority (the ‘FCA’), CleanTech Lithium, an exploration and development company advancing lithium projects in Chile for the clean energy transition, announces that as at the date of this announcement the Company’s issued share capital consists of…
Blackstone Minerals Limited (“Blackstone” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it is undertaking a partially underwritten accelerated non-renounceable pro rata entitlement offer of new fully paid ordinary shares in the Company (“Shares”) on the basis of one (1) new Share (“New Shares”) for every four (4) existing Shares…