The project is considered vital for the German auto industry's plans to develop electric batteries.

Several plans are under way to build lithium-ion battery factories in India.

As prices go down, miners are expecting that strategies to reduce oversupply eventually work.

Nickel sulphate is back to trading at a premium to the metal in China and should stay there on expected BHP Nickel West delays, says new report.

Bolivia has been producing around 400 metric tones of lithium per year in a test site.

Even before the rumoured deal, more than 80% of the world's largest cobalt miner's output was tied up for years to come, a new report shows.