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US President Joe Biden’s administration is seeking to strengthen controls on selling graphics chips for artificial intelligence (AI) applications and advanced chipmaking equipment to Chinese firms, the people said, asking not to be named because the rules are not yet public.

Demand for green hydrogen will skyrocket in the EU after the 27 member states finally approved the long-gestating Renewable Energy Directive, which includes mandatory usage targets for renewable H2 and its derivatives (known in EU parlance as Renewable Fuels of Non-Biological Origin, or RFNBOs).

H2 hubs that were selected to receive $7 billion in Infrastructure Law funding for low-cost, clean H2.

PGM would recover 15% to 20% their current price levels as “some of the floor” in the basket price had been reached, said Craig Miller, CEO of Anglo-American Platinum (Amplats).

While risks are very much to the downside in the near-term, our outlook is positive longer-term.
We expect gold to trade in the U$2,100s in the first half of next year.

"Significant restructuring" is very likely in the platinum sector of the world's top supplier of the metal as miners try to stay profitable, said Neal Froneman.

Gold prices edged lower for a ninth straight session on Thursday, as U.S. data indicating tight labor market conditions raised worries about the Federal Reserve keeping interest rates higher for some time.

Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation announced today that it has agreed a memorandum of understanding with Furuya Metal Co. on exploring an alliance to establish a stable supply network for iridium. One of the world's rarest metals, iridium is an essential material for the manufacture of PEM used in water electrolyzers that produce H2. The projected alliance will reinforce the metal's ...

As part of Umicore’s goal to reach carbon neutrality by 2035, the Group signed three long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) using renewable wind energy --- one PPA to power Europe’s first cathode materials plant in Poland and two PPAs to power its sites in Belgium, which is home to two of Umicore’s largest sites in the world.

Beginning Aug. 1’23, China has imposed export restrictions on gallium (Ga) & germanium (Ge) products.
In fact, China has been signaling that it may restrict the export of rare earth minerals to the United States as the trade conflict between the two countries escalates.