Home: Old economy recharges lead market
People are gradually emerging from lockdown and taking to the road again, often only to find they need a replacement lead-acid battery for the car.
People are gradually emerging from lockdown and taking to the road again, often only to find they need a replacement lead-acid battery for the car.
Many juniors are on the hunt for ‘technology metals,’ a broad category that includes cobalt, copper, nickel, platinum group elements, graphite, lithium, rare earth elements, and silver, among others.
Key moves in the mining sector.
London-based consultancy Minviro says the true climate change impacts of producing battery-grade graphite can be as much as 10 times higher than published values.
The Turnagain project in British Columbia is described as one of the significant undeveloped sulphide nickel and cobalt resources in the world.
A jump in demand for traditional lead-acid car batteries and lingering freight problems have created shortages that have been felt most acutely in the huge US automotive sector.
The Japanese firm will hike production capacity of cathode materials for rechargeable batteries used in EVs to meet burgeoning demand.
Australian company has begun production at its Nechalacho project in the northwest territories.
The BrineMine project is developing strategies to extract lithium, cesium and gold directly in geothermal power plants.
“We don’t have these resources in Europe, or very little” of them, Eramet CEO Christel Bories said in an interview.