Nouveau Monde advances plans to make high-purity graphite products, shares up

The company has developed a proprietary thermochemical purification technology that it says is very effective at purifying larger particle sizes and will allow it to produce high-purity, carbon-neutral graphite flakes.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | October 27, 2020 | 4:25 am

Graphene-infused copper wire may be key for more efficient EVs

General Motors and researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are behind this finding.

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | October 25, 2020 | 6:54 am

Cobalt, nickel price rally lifts EV Metal Index to 2020 high

Cobalt prices are up 30% this year and nickel has rebounded from its pandemic lows, powering the MINING.COM EV Metal Index to $1.2 billion so far this year.

Frik Els | October 21, 2020 | 4:08 pm

Zen, German Aerospace to develop graphene-enhanced aerogels for batteries

Graphene-enhanced aerogels have the potential to be low-cost, low-weight, high-performance composite materials for energy storage applications.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | October 19, 2020 | 6:30 am

Nouveau Monde, Forge Nano partner to optimize graphite products for EVs

Nouveau wants to use Forge’s Atomic Laser Disposition-coating technologies on spherical graphite.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | October 7, 2020 | 6:30 am

Zen closer to producing virucidal ink from graphene oxide

Zen’s partner, the University of Guelph, filed a patent for the electrochemical exfoliation process that allows for the production of graphene oxide.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | September 29, 2020 | 6:30 am

Mines are the biggest holes in Tesla’s $25,000 car plans

“We sorta take a chunk of dirt out of the ground, remove the lithium, and put the chunk of dirt back where it was. It will not look, like, terrible. It will be nice.”

Frik Els | September 24, 2020 | 3:08 pm