Battery Metals Top Stories

China set to boost state cobalt reserves after tumble in prices

The National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration, the government stockpiling body, may buy about 2,000 tons of cobalt.

Bloomberg News | July 3, 2023 | 8:34 am

Develop Global to buy Essential Metals for $102 million

Develop Global, an Australian base metals explorer backed by lithium…

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 3, 2023 | 5:26 am

Glencore offers to buy rest of PolyMet for $71m

The move will give Glencore a direct ownership of NorthMet,…

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 3, 2023 | 3:34 am

Stellantis inks battery metals offtake deal with Australia’s Kuniko

Stellantis has agreed to invest 5 million euros in the…

Reuters | July 2, 2023 | 5:37 pm

Argentina to begin lithium battery production in Sept

Argentina's first plant for lithium batteries will begin operations in…

Reuters | July 2, 2023 | 10:48 am

Congo sees surge in mining of metals for green energy transition

About 500 of the nation’s mining permits are in advanced development and will soon lead to new projects for lithium and cobalt.

Bloomberg News | June 3, 2022 | 6:23 am

China electric car sales rose in May as lockdowns start to ebb

The May bounce back in deliveries is an encouraging sign for the world’s biggest electric-vehicle market.

Bloomberg News | June 3, 2022 | 6:15 am

Biden keeps funds flowing to build US electric vehicle supply chain

The latest sum of support was tucked into the Ukraine aid bill signed into law late last month.

Bloomberg News | June 3, 2022 | 6:00 am

Great Salt Lake plants, insects absorb toxic metals from surrounding mines, refineries

Plants in Utah’s Great Salt Lake wetland ecosystems pull hazardous metal pollution from the lake and sometimes pass it up the food chain, new research has found.

Staff Writer | June 3, 2022 | 5:05 am

Stellantis secures lithium supply from California for EV batteries

Controlled Thermal Resources (CTR) will supply the owner of Jeep and Peugeot with up to 25,000 metric tons per year of lithium hydroxide.

Reuters | June 2, 2022 | 8:17 am

Electrification of heavy-duty long-haul operations key to reaching net-zero on road transport by 2050 – report

Experts at BloombergNEF believe that battery-electric trucks are likely to become a viable option for heavy-duty long-haul operations by the end of the 2020s.

Staff Writer | June 2, 2022 | 6:06 am