Battery Metals Top Stories

Manganese batteries market may face deficit in 2024

Industry insiders estimate the price at $3,300 per tonne by 2027, growing to $4,000 by 2031.

Bruno Venditti | January 3, 2023 | 9:01 am

Tesla faces higher lithium prices as supplier amends deal

Piedmont will supply an increased 125,000 tonnes of lithium concentrate…

Bloomberg News | January 3, 2023 | 8:27 am

Battery metal binge outweighs cost hikes at PolyMet copper-nickel project in Minnesota

Developing the first phase of the NorthMet open-pit operation about…

Staff Writer | December 30, 2022 | 10:26 am

Global Battery Metals to discontinue nickel-copper exploration in Michigan

The Vancouver-based miner said exploration activities at Sawyer Camp have…

Staff Writer | December 30, 2022 | 8:40 am

US Treasury signals opening for foreign carmakers on EV subsidy

Treasury officials indicated that imported EVs can qualify for a…

Bloomberg News | December 30, 2022 | 8:12 am

Research to make EVs more affordable gets nearly $6m from Canadian government, Tesla

Besides focusing on affordability, researchers at Dalhousie University want to increase the lifetime and energy density of batteries for EVs and energy storage applications.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | June 15, 2021 | 6:06 am

VW boss slams G7 leaders for not setting coal phase-out date

Volkswagen’s CEO, Herbert Diess, has taken aim at the Group of Seven (G7) for failing to set a firm date to phase out coal power, as well as production of diesel and gas cars.

Cecilia Jamasmie | June 15, 2021 | 3:46 am

Home: A nickel refinery tops US battery metals wish list

The Department of Energy has identified Class 1 nickel, the type best suited to lithium-ion batteries, as both key vulnerability and key opportunity.

Reuters | June 14, 2021 | 10:46 am

Ganfeng Lithium to buy 50% of Mali mine for $130 million

Ganfeng also wants at least half of Goulamina’s first-phase annual output, estimated in 455,000 tonnes of spodumene.

Cecilia Jamasmie | June 14, 2021 | 10:11 am

Fast-charging aluminum-ion batteries being developed in Australia

According to Graphene Manufacturing Group and The University of Queensland, graphene aluminum-ion batteries can charge 70 times faster than Li-ion batteries.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | June 13, 2021 | 5:08 pm