June 12, 2024 The world needs more batteries — but not this many By 2025, the global battery industry will be able to produce more than five times as many cells as the world will need, BNEF forecasts.
June 12, 2024 South Korea, Kazakhstan sign minerals deals as Seoul moves to diversify supply chain Stable supply of critical minerals is considered crucial, as South Korea lacks natural resources.
June 12, 2024 Indonesia nickel firm in talks with Glencore ahead of 2025 listing The company is in talks to secure a stake sale to Glencore ahead of the listing as Ceria sets out to build an $8 billion nickel complex.
June 12, 2024 Green Battery, Volt Carbon to jointly develop Quebec graphite project The two aim to produce the key commodity used in lithium-ion batteries and processing it without needing water, chemicals or reagents.
June 11, 2024 Aclara pivots permitting strategy at rare earth project in Chile The company has decided to "split" the project by submitting two separate EIAs that collectively cover the full life of the project.
June 11, 2024 Indonesia considers terminating permits for some nickel pig iron production The world's biggest nickel producer is experiencing a rapid depletion of ore after a surge in downstream investment.
June 11, 2024 AI helps quickly develop rare earth-free permanent magnet MagNex is a new rare earth-free permanent magnet that can be produced at 20% of the material cost of existing REEs magnets.
June 10, 2024 Electra gets Canadian gov’t funding for critical minerals recycling project The company is accelerating the next phase of its recycling project to demonstrate that its hydrometallurgical black mass process is scalable, profitable, and can be implemented at other locations.
June 10, 2024 Ditching noble metals improves efficiency of zinc-air batteries A new metal-nitrogen-carbon catalyst for zinc-air batteries has proven to outperform noble metal catalysts.
June 10, 2024 Nevada Copper files for bankruptcy, names new top boss It has also halted its Pumpkin Hollow copper mine in Nevada and named Tom Albanese, its lead independent director, as the new chairperson.
Taseko wraps Florence build, nears first copper output The Florence copper project in Arizona is moving from build to operations as Taseko lines up its next phase of copper growth. January 13, 2026 | 06:10 am
