Battery Metals Top Stories

Lake Resources delays lithium carbonate output to 2027, hikes costs

The developer hiked spending estimates from $1.1 billion to $1.5 billion.

Reuters | June 19, 2023 | 7:17 am

Costs at American Lithium’s Peru project up to $700m, CEO says

Construction could begin by late 2024 or late 2025.

Reuters | June 19, 2023 | 7:06 am

Albemarle to buy Lithium Power’s Australian unit

Lithium Power has scrapped the planned demerger of its Australian…

Cecilia Jamasmie | June 19, 2023 | 5:34 am

Material intensity in EV batteries going down —report

IDTechEx says there is a trend to reduce the number…

Staff Writer | June 18, 2023 | 7:53 am

Argentina’s growing lithium industry hits export records

Argentina’s growing lithium industry hit a record high with exports…

Bloomberg News | June 17, 2023 | 12:06 pm

Iron man Elon Musk places his Tesla battery bets

Nearly half of the vehicles Tesla produced in Q1 were equipped with LFP batteries - a cheaper rival to the nickel-and-cobalt-based cells that dominate in the West.

Reuters | April 27, 2022 | 8:51 am

Column: Automakers go back to the future to secure battery metals

Henry Ford was right all along, it turns out.

Reuters | April 27, 2022 | 7:56 am

Australian universities get $173m in funding to turn critical minerals into products, services

The funds will go towards the development of the Resources Technology and Critical Minerals Trailblazer hub.

Staff Writer | April 27, 2022 | 6:06 am

Apple, Tesla, Intel could be using conflict minerals due to faulty scheme

Global Witness says it is not the companies but the ITSCI certification scheme they rely on to vet their suppliers where the problem lies.

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 27, 2022 | 1:00 am

Rosatom, Nornickel to develop lithium project in Russia

The two Russian companies plan to develop the Kolmozerskoye lithium deposit in the country’s northwestern Murmansk region.

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 25, 2022 | 6:46 am

Sumitomo abandons Pomalaa nickel project in Indonesia

The Japanese miner cited a disagreement with its partner PT Vale Indonesia as main reason for the move.

Reuters | April 25, 2022 | 5:52 am

Head of Mexico City government compares lithium nationalization to that of oil 84 years ago

Claudia Sheinbaum compared the initiative of Andrés Manuel López Obrador to that General Lázaro Cárdenas pushed in 1938.

Staff Writer | April 24, 2022 | 1:22 pm

Lithium Energy, Hanaq Group join forces to explore lithium deposits in Argentina

Lithium Energy and Hanaq Group want to find new lithium deposits in the Olaroz-Cauchari endorheic basin, located in Argentina’s northwestern Jujuy province.

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | April 24, 2022 | 12:18 pm

New copper-nickel ink for printed electronics resists oxidation

Japanese researchers have partnered with Sumitomo Metal Mining to dig deep into the development of a cheaper, more stable ink that may help popularize printed electronics.

Staff Writer | April 24, 2022 | 7:59 am

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