Aclara pivots permitting strategy at rare earth project in Chile

The board of the miner approved the proposal to acquire 40% of the Goulamina project from Leo Lithium.

The choice of the International Seabed Authority's next secretary-general could have significant economic and environmental consequences for deep sea mining.

Ambri was founded in 2010 by two researchers who developed a “liquid metal” battery while at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The iodine and bromine-based aqueous battery showed an energy density of 1200 watt-hours per liter, surpassing the 700Wh/L of non-aqueous lithium batteries.

The company removed CEO Milewski and other executives, citing evidence that the management team had breached their duties and repeatedly lacked judgment.

SQM has been in talks with Codelco since last year over a potential partnership to mine the key battery metal.

The group, owned by Eramet and Tsingshan, is set to inaugurate its first lithium carbonate plant in the northern Argentine province of Salta.

The US Treasury Department gave automakers additional flexibility on battery mineral requirements for EV tax credits on some minerals from China, such as graphite.

The International Seabed Authority, which next meets in July, is hashing out the world’s first underwater mining code.