Nickel, cobalt price: 10 charts show China’s grip on battery supply chain to last decades

The need to store electricity, generated by renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, will also help demand to grow, the Metal Bulletin says.

The value of exports of the metal from Chile, one of the world's top producers of lithium, jumped 51 percent in the first seven months of the year.

Company said first-half profit grew 12% to $4.42 billion, below the $4.53 billion forecast by analysts.

The world’s automakers “don’t worry about lithium supply anymore” – Simon Moores.

Demand for mining as well as oil and gas equipment is so strong that the company said it was taking orders for delivery well into 2019.

Base Titanium posts record quarterly production of the mineral rutile in Kenya.

Locking in supplies of key battery raw materials lithium and cobalt has been a headache for electric car manufacturers, but these days it’s the supply of nickel and graphite that’s keeping them up at night.

The expansion, on top of a $238 million upgrade due for completion in April, will double the mine’s production to 1.95 million tonnes a year of lithium concentrate a year from 2020.

Study released Tuesday by the Fraser Institute, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec are the three main provinces where exploration permit processes have grown longer and less transparent over the past 10 years.