Battery Metals Top Stories

LKAB raises deposit estimate at Europe’s biggest rare earth find

The European Commission wants to speed up the development of new mines like Per Geijer to end its dependence.

Reuters | June 12, 2023 | 7:49 am

Greenpeace Mexico launches campaign against deep-sea mining

The international NGO says article 20 of Mexico’s new Mining…

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | June 11, 2023 | 8:30 am

GM embraces Tesla’s EV charging system, Wall Street cheers

Tesla Superchargers account for about 60% of the total fast…

Reuters | June 9, 2023 | 12:44 pm

Norway considers opening Germany-sized area to deep-sea mining

The country’s energy ministry plans to submit to parliament in…

MINING.COM Staff Writer | June 9, 2023 | 10:12 am

Nickel Industries plans to raise $633 million through share placement

The Sydney-based miner has been working towards developing nickel for…

Reuters | June 8, 2023 | 5:02 pm

USGS publishes 2022 critical minerals list

The new USGS critical minerals list adds 15 commodities while removing four.

MINING.com Editor | February 22, 2022 | 1:23 pm

Biden set to tout US progress on critical minerals production

Biden himself has said little about why his administration has blocked some mines while touting the need to boost domestic production of critical minerals.

Reuters | February 22, 2022 | 10:08 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

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