Nickel Top Stories

Gates, Bezos-backed firm gets cash injection to find battery metals

KoBold Metals, which uses AI to create a “Google Maps” of the Earth’s crust, raised $192.5 million in its latest financing round.

Cecilia Jamasmie | February 10, 2022 | 6:48 am

Glencore in battery metal offtake deal with Missouri Cobalt

The deal gives the world’s biggest commodity trader more exposure…

Bloomberg News | February 9, 2022 | 10:00 am

CATL, LG, Panasonic deployed record GWh of passenger EV battery capacity in 2021

Adamas Intelligence reports that 2021 saw a record 286.2 GWh…

MINING.COM Staff Writer | February 9, 2022 | 6:06 am

BHP to cut emissions by 30% with first LNG-powered bulk carrier

BHP unveiled the world's first liquefied natural gas-fuelled bulk carrier…

Cecilia Jamasmie | February 7, 2022 | 6:47 am

Financial spillover effect more intense between gold, silver

Researchers analyzed the portfolio risk characteristics and spillovers of precious…

MINING.COM Staff Writer | February 7, 2022 | 5:10 am

Trafigura and EVelution Energy plan to develop cobalt plant

EVelution Energy is expected to start construction of the plant in Arizona in late 2023.

Reuters | October 24, 2022 | 7:25 am

France’s Imerys wants to become leading lithium producer in Europe

Company said results of surveys carried out at its Beauvoir mine allow it to produce 34,000 tonnes of lithium hydroxide for at least 25 years.

Reuters | October 24, 2022 | 6:56 am

Metal-CO2 batteries closer to becoming a thing

There is now an innovative way to overcome the energy efficiency issues that so far have plagued metal-carbon dioxide batteries.

Staff Writer | October 24, 2022 | 6:06 am

Scientists want to produce cosmic mineral to replace REEs in industrial magnets

Researchers are looking to decouple rare earths from magnet production.

Staff Writer | October 23, 2022 | 8:08 am

Vale CEO says miner will spin off copper, nickel unit

Rather than selling all or part of it, the company is now looking to separate and ring-fence the copper and nickel unit from the iron ore business.

Reuters | October 21, 2022 | 11:08 am

Rio Tinto seeks pitches from bankers for lithium deals in battery metal foray

Rio Tinto is the only one of the world’s biggest diversified miners looking to start mining lithium.

Bloomberg News | October 21, 2022 | 10:32 am

LME Week: cocktails, canapés and crises

Trading volumes have been sliding sharply since the nickel blow-out in March and there's lingering uncertainty as to the future of the exchange's iconic open outcry trading ring, writes Andy Home.

Reuters | October 21, 2022 | 8:26 am

Lithium-oxygen batteries one step closer to moving out of the lab

A recent development may provide clues for engineering Mn-based materials with a defined crystal facet for high-performance Li-O2 batteries.

Staff Writer | October 21, 2022 | 5:05 am

Allkem’s quarterly revenue falls about 12% as output drops

Allkem had in August flagged labour and equipment shortages in Western Australia which forced the company to cut its fiscal 2023 production forecast.

Reuters | October 20, 2022 | 4:13 pm

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