Battery Metals Top Stories

Manganese palladium three plays big role in AI technologies

Manganese palladium three has the necessary properties to facilitate a form of working memory that stores data in electron spin directions.

Staff Writer | May 25, 2023 | 6:06 am

Volt Lithium stock leaps as company claims breakthrough on oil brine recoveries

Company announced lithium recoveries of 90% at relatively low costs…

Blair McBride | May 24, 2023 | 1:27 pm

Battery boom sparks revival for Quebec’s formerly failed lithium miners

Ford’s supply deal with Nemaska is the latest sign of…

Bloomberg News | May 24, 2023 | 12:15 pm

BHP-backed Tanzania nickel miner in talks for offtake contracts

Lifezone Metals is negotiating supply deals with several electric vehicle…

Reuters | May 24, 2023 | 11:29 am

Oil giant ExxonMobil jumps on lithium wagon

Acquisition of lithium prospect in southern Arkansas reflects the company's…

Staff Writer | May 24, 2023 | 8:43 am

Volkswagen plans IPO of Porsche to ignite EV shift momentum

While the timing of a sale remains in flux, the IPO could happen in the second half of this year.

Bloomberg News | February 22, 2022 | 7:52 am

Electric vehicle battery demand surge supercharges nickel

Nickel rose to its highest level in more than a decade on Monday morning.

Reuters | February 21, 2022 | 9:19 am

Mercedes-Benz foresees EV-only production lines within a few years

It expects to have factories producing exclusively electric vehicles by the second half of the decade.

Reuters | February 21, 2022 | 8:36 am

New project to investigate if California’s Lithium Valley is world’s largest brine source of lithium

A $1.2 million project has been launched to both quantify and characterize the lithium resource in the Salton Sea geothermal field in California.

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | February 20, 2022 | 6:26 am

Lithium prices rise on tight supply, strong China demand

Chinese market participants were surprised that prices continued to rise rapidly after the recent Lunar New Year holidays.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | February 18, 2022 | 9:32 am

Brazil’s Minas Gerais state to sell stake in lithium miner

The mining state is looking to sell its 33% holding in CBL, Brazil’s only producer of lithium carbonate and hydroxide.

Cecilia Jamasmie | February 18, 2022 | 7:01 am

Global EV sales jumped in 2021, as did deployment of high nickel battery chemistries

Adamas Intelligence reports that 54% of battery capacity deployed onto roads globally in new plug-in electric vehicles was powered by high nickel cathode chemistries.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | February 18, 2022 | 6:06 am

France should start mining lithium at home, minister says

Almost all the critical minerals currently come from outside the continent, with China dominating the global supply chain.

Reuters | February 17, 2022 | 11:49 am

China’s renewables boom year poses major challenges to western markets

Balancing reliance on China’s technology providers with local interests is now a key political as well as environmental challenge, says Wood Mackenzie.

Wood Mackenzie | February 17, 2022 | 11:41 am

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