Battery Metals Top Stories

Australia hands out critical minerals grants

Australia is pushing to reap more value from its mineral wealth and become a leading supplier of battery chemicals.

Reuters | May 18, 2023 | 6:49 am

Chile’s Cochilco to oversee lithium strategy to boost state control

Cochilco currently regulates and oversees the country's copper industry.

Reuters | May 17, 2023 | 2:07 pm

EU nears critical materials agreements with Argentina and Chile

Preliminary memorandums of understanding could be signed during the next…

Bloomberg News | May 17, 2023 | 12:54 pm

New Tesla low-voltage system a ‘big deal’ for copper, says Musk

A new 48 volts system slated for this year could…

Bruno Venditti | May 17, 2023 | 11:28 am

Tianqi Lithium exec sees more sector mergers and acquisitions

The Allkem and Livent tie-up has raised expectations for more…

Reuters | May 16, 2023 | 7:01 pm

Tesla secures 5-year lithium supply from Liontown

Australia's Liontown Resources will provide the EV giant with more 100,000 tonnes of lithium spodumene concentrate a year, starting in 2024.

Cecilia Jamasmie | February 16, 2022 | 4:03 am

VW set to boost output, pick new EV plant site, amid chip crunch

It plans build a new state-of-the-art car factory close to its headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany, to raise its game as electric-vehicle rival Tesla TSLA.O builds a plant near Berlin.

Reuters | February 16, 2022 | 3:49 am

Syrah Resources to expand Louisiana graphite processing facility

Syrah will add 180,000 square feet of real estate to its existing 50,000 square-foot Louisiana facility.

Reuters | February 15, 2022 | 3:54 pm

Lithium supply crunch Part II – this time it’s for real

Scarcity of what is a critical input for EV batteries could potentially act as a powerful brake on e-mobility, writes Andy Home.

Reuters | February 15, 2022 | 8:25 am

Britishvolt secures $54 million from Glencore for UK gigafactory

Glencore's backing is part of the battery plant developer’s £200 million Series C fundraising led by Bank of America.

Cecilia Jamasmie | February 15, 2022 | 6:45 am

Sumitomo to spend big to boost output of nickel, battery materials

The Japanese miner it will triple its capital expenditure over the next three years to boost its output capacity of nickel and cathode materials used in batteries.

Reuters | February 15, 2022 | 5:00 am

Glencore earmarks $1.5 billion for probes amid record profit

The world’s biggest commodity trader expects long-running corruption investigations in the US and the UK to be resolved this year.

Cecilia Jamasmie | February 15, 2022 | 3:51 am

Solid-state sodium batteries get a makeover

Swiss researchers developed a more efficient solid electrolyte and defined the ideal pressure to be applied to sodium batteries for them to operate efficiently.

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | February 14, 2022 | 6:06 am

Market interest in silicon, lithium-metal battery anodes only growing – report

The promise of higher energy density batteries is making a growing number of companies focus on silicon and lithium-metal anode materials, IDTechEx reports.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | February 13, 2022 | 6:16 am

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