February 17, 2021

Nickel was king in EV battery capacity deployment in 2020

Adamas Intelligence says that over 60% of all passenger EV battery capacity deployed globally in 2020 was in the form of high-nickel cells.

February 15, 2021

Deep Digital Cornwall project aims to unlock resources

The pioneering project is led by the Camborne School of Mines with the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Exeter.

February 14, 2021

Lithium could help control extreme heat in future fusion facilities

Injecting pellets of lithium into a tokamak’s divertor could help control high-risk conditions.

February 12, 2021

Cornish Lithium speeds up hard rock project development

Drilling campaign to contribute to first reportable mineral resource and assist in determining best extraction method.

February 11, 2021

Vision Lithium produces 99.99% pure Li₂CO₃ from Sirmac, stock explodes

The Sirmac property is located approximately 200 km south of Nemaska's Whabouchi lithium mine in Quebec.

February 11, 2021

JP Morgan: Commodities have begun new supercycle of “years-long gains”

Commodities have seen four supercycles over the past 100 years — with the last one peaking in 2008 after 12 years of expansion.

February 10, 2021

EV metal index beats record by 54% as electric cars reach tipping point

MINING.COM EV Metal Index surges to over $500m of lithium, graphite, cobalt and nickel in newly-sold electric cars worldwide in one month as prices continue to climb and deployment smashes…

February 10, 2021

American Lithium to acquire Plateau Energy amid EV boom

The agreement will consolidate two "significant and strategic" undeveloped lithium assets in the Americas.

February 10, 2021

Bacanora Lithium kicks off work at Mexico project

Heavy equipment will start the bulk site earthworks at the Sonora lithium project later in the year.

February 10, 2021

Tesla deployed more EV battery materials than its four closest competitors combined in 2020

Tesla’s large deployment of battery metals is explained by the rolling out of its made-in-China Model 3s.