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 ...

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 ...

On December 3, Reuters reported: Congo's attempt to control cobalt market risks becoming supply shock... February's export ban was replaced with a quota system in October but the country's producers ...