Lithium Top Stories

Patriot Battery Metals hits back at short-seller report

Night Market Research called Patriot a "mining unicorn" and alleges the junior has used “curiously timed buyout rumours” to inflate its share price.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 10, 2023 | 3:58 am

Eramet in talks with European carmakers over Argentina lithium plan – CEO

Eramet is in talks with European carmakers over commercial agreements that…

Reuters | July 9, 2023 | 10:52 am

Argentina’s Pan American Energy joins oil industry’s push into lithium

The company plans to dig exploratory wells in Argentina’s Andean…

Bloomberg News | July 7, 2023 | 3:02 pm

The global lithium rush is only at the beginning

Interview with Gene Morgan, CEO of brinefield services company Zelandez…

Frik Els | July 7, 2023 | 10:28 am

LG Energy doubles lithium purchase from SQM

Battery maker to buy over 100,000 tons of lithium carbonate…

MINING.COM Staff Writer | July 7, 2023 | 8:34 am

The battery metal really worrying China is lithium, not nickel

Lithium carbonate in China jumped about 472% from a low last June to a record high on March 15.

Bloomberg News | April 4, 2022 | 7:19 am

Canadian technology to recover strategic metals from spent Li-ion batteries gets $18m in funding

Lithion Recycling’s technology is able to recover 95% of strategic materials from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries and industrial waste.

Staff Writer | April 3, 2022 | 6:04 am

Carmakers will “need to become miners” – Benchmark

Even if every lithium, cobalt, nickel and graphite green and brownfield project in the pipeline comes on stream “there will not be enough” raw material going into 2030.

Frik Els | April 1, 2022 | 12:09 pm

New thermal management network aims to make Li-ion batteries safer

A 3D, thermally-conductive boron nitride network greatly improves thermal conductivity compared to random distribution in lithium-ion batteries.

Staff Writer | April 1, 2022 | 6:06 am

Serbian elections could improve chances for Rio Tinto’s lithium project

Should the country’s pro-mining president be re-elected, Rio Tinto could have a chance to have the licence for its Jadar project reinstated.

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 1, 2022 | 3:49 am

Biden poised to use Cold War powers to boost battery metals

The White House is set to add battery materials to the list of items covered by the 1950 Defense Production Act.

Bloomberg News | March 30, 2022 | 10:28 am

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Patriot Battery Metals hits back at short-seller report

Eramet in talks with European carmakers over Argentina lithium plan – CEO

Argentina’s Pan American Energy joins oil industry’s push into lithium

The global lithium rush is only at the beginning

LG Energy doubles lithium purchase from SQM

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The battery metal really worrying China is lithium, not nickel

Canadian technology to recover strategic metals from spent Li-ion batteries gets $18m in funding

Carmakers will “need to become miners” – Benchmark

New thermal management network aims to make Li-ion batteries safer

Serbian elections could improve chances for Rio Tinto’s lithium project

US senator says Defense Production Act won’t move needle without fixing mining permitting

Biden invokes Cold War powers to boost EV battery production

Biden’s battery metal push does nothing to ease mining permit bottleneck

Biden poised to use Cold War powers to boost battery metals