Battery Metals Top Stories

Lithium start-up seeks cash from Berlin to bring project to life

Vulcan Energy is seeking support for the €1.5 billion project in the upper Rhine Valley that the firm hopes to bring online in 2025.

Bloomberg News | June 30, 2023 | 9:45 am

Glencore in talks to back Argentina lithium plant for future supply

The commodities giant will sign an offtake agreement in exchange…

Bloomberg News | June 30, 2023 | 9:32 am

Northvolt nears deal with Canada on $5.3 billion battery plant

A deal with Northvolt would underscore Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s…

Bloomberg News | June 30, 2023 | 9:24 am

Stellantis signs deal with Kuniko for supply of battery materials

The automaker will get 35% of future production of battery-grade…

Reuters | June 30, 2023 | 7:12 am

RANKED: World’s top 10 rare earth projects

The Tanbreez property in Greenland takes top spot.

MINING.com Editor | June 29, 2023 | 10:13 am

GM says it has battery metals secured as industry frets supply

GM’s chief executive officer is confident the automaker will have enough materials to build 400,000 electric vehicles this year and in 2023.

Bloomberg News | April 27, 2022 | 10:39 am

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

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