The Metals Company said the protest was costing it $1 million a day.

The company has now wrapped up its 2023 drill program at the Yellowknife project which comprised 34,238 metres.

The facility will become the largest factory in Canada for high performance Li-ion battery cells.

The Chvaletice project in the Czech Republic is the only sizeable, classified resource of manganese in the European Union. 

The head of one of Chile's top mining associations on Tuesday urged the government to speed up efforts to expand the lithium industry.

The miner hiked its estimates for the Falchani project by 476% from 2019, saying it could hold 5.53 million metric tons of lithium carbonate equivalent.

Prices of key battery metals — especially lithium — have fallen dramatically since January.

The problem at Mutanda is shrinking oxide ore deposits on the surface.