Battery Metals Top Stories

$1 billion SPAC deal shows how mining supply chains are breaking up

INTERVIEW: Artem Volynets of ACG Electric Metals wants to roll up critical metals industry one mine at a time.

Frik Els | June 22, 2023 | 3:23 pm

Volkswagen’s EV battery effort keeps its executives up at night

Chief Financial Officer Arno Antlitz said the company remains open to…

Bloomberg News | June 22, 2023 | 7:29 am

NextSource begins graphite production in Madagascar

Phase one of operations at Molo are being optimized to…

Cecilia Jamasmie | June 22, 2023 | 6:03 am

Boric’s lithium strategy will hinder Chile’s growth, Conservative rival says

Jose Antonio Kast, who lost to Boric in the 2021…

Bloomberg News | June 21, 2023 | 4:10 pm

Volt eyes lithium big-league with breakthrough extraction technology

The innovative approach, rooted in fluid movement expertise, promises to…

Henry Lazenby | June 21, 2023 | 2:42 pm

African leaders talk up policy reform and regional cooperation

Africa has a generational opportunity to partake in the emerging green economy, the African Mining Indaba hears.

Henry Lazenby in Cape Town, South Africa | May 11, 2022 | 5:40 am

The Metals Company deep-water tests polymetallic nodule collector vehicle in Atlantic

Mining international waters is in the spotlight as companies are looking at minerals concentrated on the ocean floor that can be used in batteries for smart phones and electric vehicles.

Amanda Stutt | May 10, 2022 | 4:30 pm

Elon Musk says Tesla open to buying a mining company

While the auto giant has EV metals contracts with suppliers across the globe, its goal to produce 20 million vehicles annually by 2030 will require vastly more supplies of metals.

Reuters | May 10, 2022 | 2:01 pm

Redwood aims to start anode copper foil production by end of 2022

Redwood currently recycles lithium, cobalt, copper and aluminum from several sources, including the Nevada battery plant jointly owned and operated by Panasonic and Tesla.

Reuters | May 10, 2022 | 11:25 am