Battery Metals Top Stories

GM, POSCO Future M to boost investment at Canada battery materials plant

The new investment in their Ultium CAM plant will be used to set up additional facilities for local on-site processing of critical minerals.

Reuters | June 2, 2023 | 10:08 am

European Lithium signs deal with Obeikan Group for hydroxide processing plant in Saudi Arabia

Facility to be developed to meet initial capacity based on…

Staff Writer | June 1, 2023 | 4:08 pm

Breaking down clean energy funding in the Inflation Reduction Act

This infographic breaks down the $392.5 billion in clean energy and climate spending…

Visual Capitalist - Decarbonization Channel | June 1, 2023 | 12:31 pm

Tsingshan says Argentina lithium plan with Eramet to total $1.7 billion

China's top nickel producer urged the Argentinian government to introduce…

Reuters | June 1, 2023 | 7:26 am

Global production of critical metals unlikely to meet EU demand

Researchers say metal shortage could put the brakes on the…

Staff Writer | June 1, 2023 | 5:15 am

Posco to invest $4bn in lithium project in Argentina

The funds will be invested in a project at a salt flat called Salar de Hombre Muerto, located in the border between the northern Salta and Catamarca provinces.

Reuters | March 21, 2022 | 2:41 pm

Volkswagen unveils Asian ventures to secure nickel, cobalt

Volkswagen will form joint ventures with Huayou Cobalt and Tsingshan Group to secure up to 120kt nickel and 15kt cobalt per year.

Reuters | March 21, 2022 | 7:34 am

China tells EV battery chain it wants ‘rational’ lithium prices

Lithium has soared nearly 500% in the past year.

Bloomberg News | March 21, 2022 | 7:19 am

Chinese electric carmaker calls battery price hikes ‘ridiculous’

Car manufacturers are trying to lure more customers just as government subsidies for cleaner vehicles fall away.

Bloomberg News | March 21, 2022 | 7:14 am

Nickel squeeze threatens London’s place at heart of metals trade

Investors are furious with the LME for allowing prices to soar 250% in less than two days.

Bloomberg News | March 20, 2022 | 12:22 pm

US unveils battery strategy in West Virginia to ease coal loss

The administration also plans to announce nearly $215 million in Interior Department funding to clean up abandoned mines in West Virginia.

Bloomberg News | March 18, 2022 | 8:14 am

The Metals Company signs MoU for PFS on world’s first deep-sea nodule processing plant

The polymetallic nodule fields in the CCZ of the Pacific represent the largest known undeveloped nickel resource on the planet.

Staff Writer | March 17, 2022 | 2:09 pm

Ontario aims to boost EV industry as it announces first critical minerals strategy

Ontario has identified 33 critical minerals, including nickel, cobalt, lithium, and rare earth elements. It produced about C$3.5 billion worth of critical minerals in 2020.

Naimul Karim | March 17, 2022 | 12:49 pm

Eramet, Suez eye EV battery recycling in France by 2024

The joint project would produce black mass, a metal concentrate containing nickel, cobalt, manganese, lithium and graphite that is suitable for hydrometallurgical refining.

Reuters | March 17, 2022 | 7:52 am

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