Battery Metals Top Stories

Optimism for metals clashes with reality for juniors ahead of PDAC

Increasing funding for battery metal and uranium projects versus gold brings home the global energy transition but big financing deals for pre-production companies have almost disappeared.

Alisha Hiyate | February 18, 2024 | 9:51 am

Western Australia offers royalty relief to struggling nickel producers

The government has announced a nickel financial assistance program that…

Reuters | February 17, 2024 | 9:13 pm

Electrodialysis technology to extract lithium from thermal sources gets award

Researchers at Alma Energy and the University of Texas El…

Staff Writer | February 17, 2024 | 6:06 am

Op-Ed: Sparing the land by collecting minerals at sea

A challenge is that seafloor mining immediately starts off at…

Seaver Wang | February 16, 2024 | 4:10 pm

Curtin researcher co-develops solution to help turn waste carbon into battery-grade graphite

'RapidGraphite’ proprietary technology could be a game changer, university says.

Staff Writer | February 16, 2024 | 1:29 pm

China’s path-setting lithium futures tumble on trading debut

Shares in Tianqi Lithium, YongXing Special Materials Technology, and Ganfeng Lithium slid to the lowest in at least a year.

Bloomberg News | July 21, 2023 | 8:37 am

Dead EV batteries turn to gold with US incentives

A little-publicized clause in the US Inflation Reduction Act has companies scrambling to recycle electric vehicle batteries in North America.

Reuters | July 21, 2023 | 7:42 am

Australia blocks acquisition of lithium mine by China-linked firm

Country issued a prohibition order stopping Austroid Corporation from acquiring an additional 90% of lithium miner Alita Resources.

Reuters | July 21, 2023 | 7:32 am

Bolivia hikes lithium resources estimate to 23mt

The new figure compares with a previous estimate of 21 million metric tons.

Reuters | July 20, 2023 | 11:28 am

Elon Musk relieved that lithium prices are no longer insane

Chinese prices of lithium carbonate, a refined form of the metal, have halved from a peak in mid-November as supply pressure eased.

Bloomberg News | July 20, 2023 | 10:09 am

How Chile’s progressive new plan to mine lithium faces Indigenous hurdles

Chile’s millennial president, Gabriel Boric, promised to mine differently. He would turn the world’s largest copper producer and second largest lithium miner […]

Reuters | July 20, 2023 | 7:26 am

MinRes backs out of Chinese investment deal with Albemarle

Billion-dollar deal that would have seen MinRes acquire a stake in downstream assets in China owned by Albemarle.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 20, 2023 | 3:46 am

Energy transition faces metals gap unless investment rises, report finds

According to the Energy Transitions Commission, it will require production of up to 6.5 billion tonnes of materials cumulatively between 2022 and 2050.

Reuters | July 19, 2023 | 5:13 pm

A moving target: Addressing the global infrastructure deficit in times of rapid climate change, decarbonization

The need for more and better infrastructure around the world will only get bigger over time, widening the trillion-dollar gap that already exists between planned investment and the amount needed.

Rick Mills - Ahead of the Herd | July 19, 2023 | 10:16 am

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