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Cobalt Industry EU REACH dossier updates well received by ECHA
The Cobalt REACH Consortium (CoRC) carried out a comprehensive update of EU REACH dossiers to implement the new harmonized classification for cobalt metal.
Chemicals Management in China: overview
The Chinese government uses a network management model in the regulatory supervision of chemicals. The Ministry of Industry and Information technology (MIIT), Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE)...
Cobalt Institute appoints Tom Fairlie as Sustainability Manager
Tom will lead the sustainability work at the Cobalt Institute, which focuses on the decarbonization of cobalt supply chains, circular economy agendas and electric vehicle battery legislation.
Met4Tech: Circular Economy Centre for Technology Metals – including Cobalt
Cobalt Institute collaborates with Met4Tech on carrying out case studies on cobalt deposits mined by large scale mining (LSM) and artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). Read a blogpost from Met4Tech on its new Circular Economy Centre for Technology Metals.
Cobalt – Part of the U.S. Solution
When U.S. President Joe Biden took the oath of office in January of this year, he stepped into the middle of multiple crises – a worldwide pandemic, a changing global climate, and stunning domestic...
Blockchain technology to improve the transparency of the cobalt supply chain
The Cobalt Institute's members CMOC, Eurasian Resources Group (ERG), Glencore and Umicore are piloting ReISource, a solution to trace responsibly produced cobalt from the mine to the electric car. T...
Cobalt Conference speakers commit to responsible and sustainable mining on land and sea
19 May 2021. The Cobalt Conference has become a platform for the high-level state officials and industry executives from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to demonstrate the country’s effo...
Cobalt Institute publishes State of the Cobalt Market Report 2020
18 May 2021. Today sees the publication of the Cobalt Institute’s “State of the Cobalt Market 2020 Report”. The Cobalt Institute commissioned Roskill – a leader in critical materials supply c...
CMOC joins initiative to help small-scale cobalt miners
Cobalt Institute’s member China Moly (CMOC) and its Swiss-based trading arm, IXM, have joined the ‘Better Mining’ initiative that seeks to help artisanal and small-scale miners (ASM) become a re...
Umicore’s sustainable cobalt procurement externally validated for the 6th year in a row
Umicore obtained, for the sixth year in a row, third-party assurance from PwC that its cobalt purchases are carried out in line with the conditions set out in its Sustainable Procurement Framework fo...
New Data Obtained on the Toxicity of Cobalt to the Marine Environment
Guildford, 26 March 2021. The Cobalt Institute supported a programme of scientific studies on “Chronic Toxicity of Cobalt to Marine Organisms”, published in the Environmental Toxicology and Chem...
Cobalt Institute appoints Marina Demidova as Communications Manager
Guildford, Wednesday, 17th March 2021
The Cobalt Institute has appointed Marina Demidova as its communications manager.
Marina will lead the Institute’s communication work, including global outrea...