Chinese lithium hydroxide prices played catch-up amid tight supply – report

Lead battery-powered energy storage highlighted by research consortium’s online map.

The reason for central banks’ recent gold accumulations has little to do with safe havens and a lot to do with chipping away at the US dollar’s role as the reserve currency.

United Nations officials and atomic regulators are poised to loosen rules on the industry, unlocking finance to take more radioactive material out of the ground without corresponding new checks.

Investment will go towards more drilling, orebody studies, infrastructure improvements and permitting activities.

The majority of production will feed the Japanese battery industry and will be sourced from the lithium carbonate produced from Orocobre’s Olaroz mine in Argentina.

Mongolia has emerged as an investment hot spot for untapped reserves.

It’s been a stormy month for benchmark coal prices in Asia, with the potential for reverberations across the globe.

The outlook comes after China's Tsingshan Group surprised the market last year with a low-cost estimate and short time frame to launch a $700 million plant on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.

Attempts to replace copper in a lithium-ion battery's anode with aluminum have failed so far, which bodes well for major copper miners.