Battery Metals Top Stories

China metals firms see US rules unlikely to upend supply chains

Rules for battery components should apply from 2024, while critical minerals will be covered from 2025.

Bloomberg News | December 6, 2023 | 10:22 am

Surge in lithium stocks raise hope rout in EV metal almost done

Tianqi Lithium and Ganfeng Lithium closed up 6.5% and 7%,…

Bloomberg News | December 6, 2023 | 9:39 am

Piedmont Lithium gets another extension amid North Carolina mine permit review

The proposed mine, if built, would become one of North…

Reuters | December 5, 2023 | 2:29 pm

Fortune Minerals stock gains on government funds for NICO project

The funds will be used to support a mini-pilot to…

Staff Writer | December 5, 2023 | 12:30 pm

Investors are seeing past 75% lithium price plunge, Chile’s Enami says

The state-owned ore processing company said it will be in…

Bloomberg News | December 5, 2023 | 10:20 am

India’s rare earths miner eyes 400% expansion for clean energy

State-owned IREL Ltd. aims to mine 50 million tons a year of rare-earths bearing ore by end-2032.

Bloomberg News | April 12, 2023 | 9:11 am

Indonesia nickel giant lists at top of range raising $672 million

Harita Nickel raises $672 million in Indonesia’s largest initial public offering in 2023.

Bloomberg News | April 12, 2023 | 7:51 am

Water-based batteries store more energy than previously thought

US-based researchers are getting closer to developing metal-free batteries.

Staff Writer | April 12, 2023 | 6:06 am

Chile to present large lithium investment plan for 2025-2030 this month

One of the plan's aims is also to promote decentralization.

Reuters | April 11, 2023 | 11:54 am

Export restrictions may threaten the green transition, OECD says

The restrictions have increased more than five-fold in the last decade to a point where 10% of the global value of exports is subject to at least one measure, the OECD says.

Bloomberg News | April 11, 2023 | 10:20 am

General Motors to invest $50 million in lithium startup EnergyX

The Texas-based company is developing a more efficient method to extract lithium from salt flats.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | April 11, 2023 | 9:38 am

Glencore to offer lithium batteries recycling services in Spain and Portugal

It has partnered with waste management services provider FCC Ámbito and Spanish energy firm Iberdrola to offer battery recycling services.

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 11, 2023 | 5:03 am

Sigma Lithium to start production ‘within days’ after Brazilian approval

Production is expected to slowly ramp up in coming months and hit an annual production rate of 270,000 tonnes of spodumene concentrate by July.

Reuters | April 10, 2023 | 1:42 pm

Peru will mine more copper in 2023, lithium permits pending

Peru expects to produce 2.8 million tonnes of copper in 2023, versus 2.44 million tonnes last year.

Reuters | April 10, 2023 | 10:39 am

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