IGO in talks to buy into Tianqi’s Greenbushes lithium mine

Australian nickel-gold miner IGO could buy up to a 25% stake, worth close to $1.5 billion, in the world’s biggest hard-rock lithium mine.

Cecilia Jamasmie | December 7, 2020 | 3:43 am

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Glencore taps coal head Gary Nagle as new CEO; Mining supercycle talk back; Carmakers have blind spot for lithium, cobalt, nickel prices

MINING.com Editor | December 4, 2020 | 3:50 pm

Lithium Americas’ Thacker Pass closer to production

The Nevada project is host to the largest known lithium resource in the US.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | December 4, 2020 | 9:49 am

Standard Lithium makes better-than-battery-quality lithium carbonate

The Vancouver-based company completed the start-to-finish proof of concept of its lithium processing technology.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | December 4, 2020 | 6:20 am

Carmakers have blind spot for lithium, cobalt, nickel prices

New research report has a warning for electric carmakers about the direction of battery prices without incentives to build new mines.

Frik Els | December 3, 2020 | 12:20 pm

Trump taps loan program he tried to kill to help mining

The loan program was created to help fund clean energy technology programs and electric vehicles.

Bloomberg News | December 1, 2020 | 12:06 pm

Pilbara Minerals to buy Altura for $175m on lithium recovery bet

Altura entered receivership in October following prolonged weakness in the raw battery materials market.

Reuters | December 1, 2020 | 10:48 am

Tianqi Lithium gets 1-month reprieve on $1.9bn loan repayment

Company signed a letter with a syndicate of banks to extend by a month the maturity date on $1.884 billion of loans that were due for repayment at the end of November.

Reuters | November 30, 2020 | 9:22 am

Livent opts out of E3 Metals joint development agreement

Shares of E3 Metals plunged following the news.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | November 27, 2020 | 10:41 am

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