Car battery pioneer says new breakthrough will lower cobalt use The technique could lower cobalt content to as little as 4 percent of battery cathodes, from about 20 percent needed in some now. Bloomberg News | November 6, 2018 | 11:46 am
Oil bulls best hope nothing messes with Texas: Liam Denning Oil bulls should pause, because when it comes to growth in demand, Texas is pretty much the whole story. Bloomberg News | November 6, 2018 | 11:18 am
Pompeo defends temporary waivers granted for Iran oil buying The comments come a day before U.S. sanctions on Iran’s energy and shipping are due to snap back. Bloomberg News | November 4, 2018 | 9:10 am
Iraq’s Kurds add capacity to oil pipeline to export Kirkuk crude The link’s capacity increased to 1 million barrels a day from 900,000. Bloomberg News | November 4, 2018 | 8:11 am
Striking workers block access to Gold Fields South Africa mine The strike, involving more than 3,000 workers, started Friday afternoon to protest the gold miner’s plan to cut jobs. Bloomberg News | November 3, 2018 | 6:09 pm
Barrick’s Randgold acquisition may spur more gold M&A The market may see the wave of consolidation we’ve been waiting for - Michael Siperco, analyst at Macquarie Capital Markets. Bloomberg News | November 2, 2018 | 9:39 am
You’ll need 286 pounds of coal to fuel that electric road trip As electric vehicles slowly become a bigger part of the global fleet, questions about mileage and fuel efficiency are going to become more apposite. Bloomberg News | November 1, 2018 | 2:58 pm
Panasonic Says Gigafactory Profit in Sight as Tesla Ramps Output Panasonic already makes money on batteries for the Model S and Model X, which it produces domestically. Bloomberg News | November 1, 2018 | 2:47 pm
Every US metal producer is down for 2018, despite tariffs Companies in metals and mining have been hit especially hard amid concern that the rising trade frictions from the tariffs have helped crimp economic growth. Bloomberg News | November 1, 2018 | 2:41 pm
Mining veteran wants to build a $1B battery metals giant TechMet Ltd., which controls just a handful of assets from Canada to Rwanda wants to help challenge China’s domination of the nascent industry. Bloomberg News | November 1, 2018 | 6:39 am
As tobacco wanes, a Virginia farmer wants to harvest his uranium There’s uranium everywhere. Bloomberg News | October 31, 2018 | 1:33 pm
BHP, top miners are starting to drive EV’s deep underground The deeper the mine, then the bigger the savings. Bloomberg News | October 30, 2018 | 9:58 am