Battery Metals Top Stories

Lithium price: Europe EVs now use 57% more LCE

Europe's only bright spot as average lithium used in EVs sold around the world grows anaemic 4% to 12.2kg.

Frik Els | November 13, 2019 | 3:40 pm

China in focus as West debates critical minerals challenge

Western powers will attend talks in Brussels next week on…

Reuters | November 13, 2019 | 11:30 am

Lithium producers hit by first big downturn of electric vehicle era

Global supply currently exceeds demand by about 5, according to…

Reuters | November 13, 2019 | 3:06 am

First Cobalt seeks government backing to restart Canadian refinery

The plant, located about 373 miles from the US border…

Reuters | November 12, 2019 | 3:25 pm

Cobalt hydroxide price up 55% in three months

Chinese imports of cobalt hydroxide also up 28% in September…

Frik Els | November 12, 2019 | 2:28 pm

Health and safety bigger risks to artisanal miners that conflict minerals — report

First-ever long-term artisanal and small-scale mine site monitoring data study reveals challenges in battery metals supply chains.

Cecilia Jamasmie | October 22, 2019 | 9:53 am

Rio Tinto kicks off $10m pilot hoping to become the largest lithium miner in US

The miner will be extracting lithium from the tailings of its California Boron mine.

Cecilia Jamasmie | October 22, 2019 | 3:48 am

Lithium Chile gets environmental approvals for Turi exploration drilling

Surface access was successfully negotiated in early 2019 with the Turi Indigenous Community.

MINING.com Editor | October 18, 2019 | 12:37 pm

Chilean regulator asks for more time to review Maricunga project

Owners Lithium Power International and Bearing Lithium say they were expecting the time extension.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | October 18, 2019 | 6:20 am

DeepGreen makes run at seafloor mining

DeepGreen Metals intends to be the world’s first zero tailings miner by retrieving polymetallic base metal nodules from the seafloor.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | October 17, 2019 | 2:46 pm

Vancouver’s QMC to produce lithium oxide concentrate in China

The Canadian miner shipped spodumene from Manitoba to Guangxi.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | October 17, 2019 | 6:15 am

Uranium One to buy controlling stake in Wealth Minerals’ Chilean lithium project

The subsidiary of Russia’s state nuclear company Rosatom may buy up to a 51% interest in Atacama lithium project, located in an area that hosts more than 15% of the world’s known reserves of the battery metal.

Cecilia Jamasmie | October 15, 2019 | 3:50 am

Chile’s Codelco says considering closure of coastal copper smelter

The Ventanas smelter has been the target of criticism from social and environmental groups that accuse it of contributing to heavy pollution in the Quintero area.

Reuters | October 14, 2019 | 4:16 pm

Bacanora and Ganfeng ink Sonora lithium project investment

Sonora is regarded as one of the world’s larger known clay lithium deposits.

Amanda Stutt | October 14, 2019 | 4:00 pm

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