Nickel Top Stories

CHART: Study predicts over 400% increase in copper, lithium, nickel battery demand

BloombergNEF turns super bullish about metals demand for batteries – ups forecast 35% to 2.7 terawatt hours per year by 2030 as electric cars take off.

MINING.com Editor | June 30, 2021 | 12:09 pm

Glencore paid $5.8bn to governments in 2020

Payments to governments in 2020 were lower due to pandemic…

MINING.COM Staff Writer | June 30, 2021 | 11:34 am

China faces risks due to high chrome, manganese, nickel import reliance — report

According to Roskill, China’s net import reliance on chromium, nickel…

MINING.COM Staff Writer | June 30, 2021 | 6:06 am

Strike at Vale’s Sudbury operation strains battery nickel supply

Since the Vale strike began, the premium on briquette has…

Bloomberg News | June 29, 2021 | 11:29 am

CHARTS: China’s overseas copper mining scramble

Chinese state and private investors have spent more than $16…

MINING.com Editor | June 29, 2021 | 11:25 am

LME faces UK regulatory review over nickel market turmoil

The Financial Conduct Authority will review the suspension and resumption of the nickel market last month.

Bloomberg News | April 4, 2022 | 7:54 am

LME introduces 15% daily price limits for all metals

The exchange suspended nickel trading on March 8 after prices spiked by more than 50% to hit $100,000 a tonne.

Reuters | April 4, 2022 | 7:24 am

Carmakers dream of clean, green, mean electric machines

An electric car is a clean car, right? If only it were so simple.

Reuters | April 4, 2022 | 6:56 am

Canadian technology to recover strategic metals from spent Li-ion batteries gets $18m in funding

Lithion Recycling’s technology is able to recover 95% of strategic materials from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries and industrial waste.

Staff Writer | April 3, 2022 | 6:04 am

Carmakers will “need to become miners” – Benchmark

Even if every lithium, cobalt, nickel and graphite green and brownfield project in the pipeline comes on stream “there will not be enough” raw material going into 2030.

Frik Els | April 1, 2022 | 12:09 pm

Panasonic to spend $5 billion on EV batteries, software

The Osaka-based manufacturer will invest 400 billion yen in growth segments including electric-vehicle cells.

Bloomberg News | April 1, 2022 | 11:39 am

LME nickel volumes tumbled 28% in March amid shutdown

The average daily volume of combined LME nickel futures and options slumped to 64,952 lots in March.

Reuters | April 1, 2022 | 9:45 am

New thermal management network aims to make Li-ion batteries safer

A 3D, thermally-conductive boron nitride network greatly improves thermal conductivity compared to random distribution in lithium-ion batteries.

Staff Writer | April 1, 2022 | 6:06 am

US senator says Defense Production Act won’t move needle without fixing mining permitting

“Despite his climate pledges, President Biden has done nothing meaningful to boost American mineral production," says Senator John Barrasso.

Staff Writer | March 31, 2022 | 11:19 am

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