Nickel Top Stories

BASF picks Canada to expand supplies for booming EV battery market

BASF, in partnership with Japan's Toda Kogyo, already produces cathode active materials at two locations in North America - Ohio and Michigan.

Reuters | March 4, 2022 | 11:05 am

Nickel price tops $30,000 for first time since 2008 amid short squeeze

The latest spike comes as clients with short positions have…

Bloomberg News | March 4, 2022 | 10:50 am

Metals traders hit with margin-call snafu in chaotic week

A stressful week in markets got even worse for some…

Bloomberg News | March 4, 2022 | 10:33 am

Tesla’s German gigafactory gets conditional green light

The $5.5 billion plant, located outside Berlin, is expected to…

Cecilia Jamasmie | March 4, 2022 | 8:45 am

Commodity funds in demand as investors seek refuge from soaring inflation

Energy funds have risen 24.7% this year, while precious metals…

Reuters | March 4, 2022 | 8:21 am

LME mulling consultation on banning Russian metal

Reuters sources say the exchange was planning to discuss banning new deliveries of Russian metal so its warehouses cannot be used to offload hard-to-sell stock.

Reuters | September 29, 2022 | 8:47 am

BC leads all Canadian provinces in EV transition, report shows

Electric Mobility Canada has released a scorecard comparing how Canadian provinces and territories are doing at supporting consumers in their transition to electric vehicles.

Staff Writer | September 29, 2022 | 8:38 am

Australia’s mining state aims to build battery manufacturing hub

Western Australia is the world’s biggest exporter of lithium.

Bloomberg News | September 28, 2022 | 9:00 pm

S.Korea’s SK On inks deal with Global Lithium Resources for lithium supply

SK On will also explore additional business opportunities in the battery value chain, such as mining minerals.

Reuters | September 28, 2022 | 8:51 pm

Peru targets local lithium battery production, official says

Peru currently produces no lithium and no country in Latin America produces lithium batteries at a commercial scale even if they do mine lithium.

Reuters | September 28, 2022 | 12:29 pm

CATL plans $1.9 billion battery project in China’s Luoyang city

Construction of the project will take up to three years, CATL said.

Bloomberg News | September 28, 2022 | 10:54 am

Foran’s ambitious net zero plans for McIlvenna Bay attract investors

Foran has had a busy year as it advances the McIlvenna Bay copper-zinc-gold project in Saskatchewan, which it says will be the world’s first zero-carbon operation.

Kelsey Rolfe | September 28, 2022 | 7:06 am

Researchers push for using metals to treat infections

Two dozen highly active metal compounds containing cobalt, nickel, rhodium, palladium, silver, europium, iridium, platinum, molybdenum and gold can be used to treat fungal infections.

Staff Writer | September 28, 2022 | 5:05 am

Rio Tinto warns miners not moving fast enough on lithium extraction

Lithium consumption needed “to surge way above anything that’s planned to be mined,” says minerals chief Sinead Kaufman.

Bloomberg News | September 27, 2022 | 7:13 pm

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