Italy indicated it may give up its push for a five-year delay in the EU’s plan for automakers to eliminate greenhouse gases from the vehicles they sell.

China's biggest cobalt refiner acquired the hard-rock Arcadia lithium mine just outside Harare for $422 million earlier this year.

In May, the company became the first European firm to start commercial shipments to an automaker.

The plans for a plant with 100,000 tonnes of annual capacity are a bullish bet on the future of American lithium demand.

Widgie Nickel emerged from a trading halt Monday to rocket higher after the Perth-based company released assays from its Mt Edwards Project in Western Australia. 

Several battery production plants are being planned in Norway already, including projects by Morrow, Freyr, Beyonder, and Corvus.