January 13, 2022

RANKED: Top 20 EVs of 2021 – costs jump as lithium, cobalt, nickel prices surge

Ranking of world’s 20 best selling electric cars and their battery metals show automakers grappling with soaring raw material prices.

January 13, 2022

China hurt most by Indonesia’s move to keep nickel at home

Indonesia has played a key role in global markets as a bulk materials supplier, but President Joko Widodo has pledged to eventually stop exports of all raw commodities to turn…

January 13, 2022

Argentina seeks $10 billion in mining exports by 2030

Gov't expects $25bn in investments related to 34 projects currently in advanced exploration, as the deadline to restructure billions in debt to the IMF looms.

January 12, 2022

SQM ups ESG agenda with Standard for Responsible Mining audit

Indigenous communities living around Chile’s Atacama salt flat last year asked authorities to suspend SQM’s operating permits or reduce its operations until it submits an environmental compliance plan acceptable to…

January 12, 2022

Chile awards new lithium contracts despite political storm

The country awarded two of five contracts on offer -- one to Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD and another to local firm Servicios y Operaciones Mineras del Norte.

January 12, 2022

Singapore bourse to start cobalt, lithium contracts in H1 2022

SGX will partner with Fastmarkets, the price reporting agency for these products.

January 12, 2022

Serbia to decide on Rio Tinto’s lithium mine after April election

Rio Tinto recently committed $2.4 billion to develop a lithium-borates project in the western Jadar valley.

January 12, 2022

WATCH: BlackRock says boom could last decades as copper price tops $10,000

“We’ve got decades worth of high rates of investment into infrastructure as the world seeks to decarbonize. That’s a widely held consensual view."

January 12, 2022

EV industry moving in right direction to close gap with internal combustion engines – report

According to IDTechEx, electrification is inevitable as is the EV industry’s focus on environmentally friendlier materials and supply chains, and safer products.

January 12, 2022

Supply squeeze risks are pushing lithium price higher and higher

Lithium has burst into 2022 with a fresh price spike that hands electric-vehicle makers more warning of even sharper cost pressures to come.