EV battery startup poaches oil veterans to build Arctic factory

Freyr plans to start a pilot plant near the Arctic Circle in Norway by next year.

Bloomberg News | March 24, 2021 | 8:09 am

Freeport, Tsingshan finalising $2.8bn copper smelter next week

The smelter will have an input capacity of 2.4 million tonnes of copper concentrate and an output capacity of 600,000 tonnes.

Reuters | March 24, 2021 | 7:45 am

Musk grabs Elon lithium project in Quebec

Musk Metals, known until early March as Gold Plus Mining, is adding the battery metal to its gold-focused portfolio.

Cecilia Jamasmie | March 24, 2021 | 7:01 am

Top 14 UBS battery metals forecasts after VW teardown

UBS says ID.3 is the “most significant bet on EVs made by any legacy carmaker to date” prompting a super bullish upgrade to demand for lithium, nickel, cobalt, rare earth and graphite

MINING.com Editor | March 23, 2021 | 2:21 pm

Lithium extraction pilot plant planned at Clayton Valley

NeoLith Energy’s approach aims to reduce production time from over a year to weeks.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | March 22, 2021 | 5:19 am

MINING.COM MINUTE: Biggest stories of the week

Mining profits reach $230 billion a year, topped only by oil & gas, pharma; Lithium prices continue to soar – up 88% in 2021; Massive new port could give Vale back iron ore crown.

MINING.com Editor | March 19, 2021 | 12:49 pm

Investors flock back to lithium as battery bust turns to boom

Investors are betting big on a lithium comeback less than three years after prices of the metal used in rechargeable batteries collapsed.

Bloomberg News | March 19, 2021 | 12:04 pm

Securing raw materials key to China’s economic, carbon neutrality goals – report

A report by Wood Mackenzie states that China needs to secure a competitive supply of raw materials to guarantee its clean growth.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | March 19, 2021 | 6:11 am

US looks to Canada for minerals to build electric vehicles

The US government is working to help American miners and battery makers expand into Canada, part of a strategy to boost regional production of minerals used to make electric vehicles and counter Chinese dominance.

Reuters | March 18, 2021 | 11:12 am

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