Battery Metals Top Stories

Horizonte Minerals fails to secure financing, considering mine sale

The company considers selling its Brazilian nickel mine amidst low prices and supply surplus from Indonesia.

Staff Writer | April 15, 2024 | 7:21 am

Tesla supplier Piedmont Lithium gets key North Carolina mining permit

The proposed mine could produce 30,000 metric tons of lithium…

Reuters | April 15, 2024 | 5:35 am

Illegal workers arrested at Posco Argentina operation

The illegal workers had entered Argentina under tourist visas and…

Staff Writer | April 14, 2024 | 12:42 pm

New electrolyte component allows for safe, high-performance solid-state batteries

A stable and highly conductive lithium-ion conductor has been found…

Staff Writer | April 14, 2024 | 6:57 am

US moves closer to approving ioneer’s Nevada lithium mine

The proposed mine, roughly 225 miles north of Las Vegas, contains…

Reuters | April 12, 2024 | 2:03 pm

Livent starts Australian campaign for $10.6bn Arcadium Lithium merger

Merging Livent and Allkem would create the world's third-largest lithium producer by volume.

Reuters | November 12, 2023 | 5:36 am

How Canada – and Bay Street – squandered the chance to finance the critical minerals revolution

Capital has disappeared from Canada’s once-thriving junior mining industry.

Tim Kiladze - The Globe and Mail | November 10, 2023 | 4:11 pm

Ganfeng open to Mexico venture on canceled lithium mine

Ganfeng is attempting to navigate President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s statist approach in Mexico’s nascent lithium sector.

Bloomberg News | November 10, 2023 | 10:50 am

Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart enters rare earths business in Brazil

Brazilian Rare Earths will list on the ASX with a market capitalization of $220 million.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | November 10, 2023 | 10:27 am

Manganese-doped material may be crucial in energy-efficient computing

Manganese-doped germanium telluride could eventually lead to computers that need less than one millionth of the currently required energy to switch a bit, according to new research.

Staff Writer | November 10, 2023 | 4:32 am

CEZ luring car-battery producers as lithium mine decision nears

The biggest traded power producer in eastern Europe is “totally serious” about plans to extract the metal in the north of Czech Republic.

Bloomberg News | November 9, 2023 | 11:39 am

Ganfeng indefinitely postpones Mexican lithium target date amid gov’t spat

Decision follows Mexico's notice to Ganfeng's local subsidiaries in August cancelling nine of its concessions in the country.

Reuters | November 9, 2023 | 8:32 am

Li-Metal produces first batch of lithium metal ingots from scrap

Li-Metal’s reprocessing and casting technology reconfigures scrap lithium from sources such as lithium foil producers into ingots that may be used for anode production.

Staff Writer | November 9, 2023 | 5:00 am

Portugal activists urge suspension of lithium projects after PM quits

With more than 60,000 metric tons of known lithium reserves, Portugal is Europe's biggest lithium producer.

Reuters | November 8, 2023 | 2:48 pm

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