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Cobalt Days & Observances

Battery & Energy Metals · ₹4,914.84/kg today (+0.03% / 7d) · Live chart →

Every Cobalt-related date MetalsCost tracks, each clearly labeled Official, Industry, or MetalsCost Editorial — never presented as more official than it actually is.

1 Official 1 Editorial
SymbolCo
Atomic Number27
CategoryTransition Metal

Cobalt Observances

Official Tuesday, January 26, 2027 In 154 days

International Day of Clean Energy

The UN's International Day of Clean Energy isn't cobalt-specific, but cobalt-based cathode chemistry remains a significant part of the EV battery supply chain this day is meant to draw attention to.

Source: United Nations General Assembly (Resolution A/77/327) · Global (UN member states)
Tracked on MetalsCost since 2023 Add to calendar
MetalsCost Editorial Thursday, September 10, 2026 In 16 days

MetalsCost Cobalt Day

MetalsCost marks September 10 for cobalt. Georg Brandt is credited with identifying cobalt around 1735, but sources disagree on the exact year of formal announcement and no single day is preserved, so this date is an evenly-spaced content-calendar placeholder.

MetalsCost Editorial Day — not an official international or industry observance. No single verified discovery or founding date exists for this metal, so MetalsCost assigned an evenly-spaced content-calendar date rather than inventing a claimed "day."
Tracked on MetalsCost since 2026 Add to calendar

Why Cobalt Matters

A battery metal whose price chart has become a proxy for how nervous the EV industry is about where its supply actually comes from.

Quick Fact

Concerns over artisanal, small-scale mining conditions in cobalt's dominant supply region have pushed battery makers toward traceability requirements and, in some cases, cobalt-reduced battery chemistries entirely — a real supply-chain story shaping the metal's own demand.

Read the full Cobalt profile →

Frequently Asked Questions

MetalsCost tracks 2 Cobalt-related observances: International Day of Clean Energy, MetalsCost Cobalt Day.

Some are. Each entry on this page is explicitly labeled Official, Industry, or MetalsCost Editorial — only the first two are backed by a named external organization, with a source link. Editorial entries are clearly marked as MetalsCost's own content-calendar choice, never presented as a real observance.

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