October 11, 2022 GM to take equity stake in Australian mining company General Motors will invest up to $69 million and take an equity stake in Queensland Pacific Metals.
October 11, 2022 Rio Tinto’s aging Quebec plant gets $374 million upgrade in critical metals push Fer et Titane plant in Sorel-Tracy to get upgrades that include electrifying furnaces and replacing coal in a push to cut the facility’s carbon emissions in half by 2030.
October 11, 2022 Northcliff shares research into superior performance of tungsten-ion batteries The new type of batteries can be 90+% charged in less than five minutes, and they withstand a wider range of temperatures with reduced fire risk.
October 11, 2022 EV battery hopeful Britishvolt holds talks on UK site sale as outlook dims Britishvolt is in talks to divest its 93-hectare lot in Cambois, northern England, to Slovak startup Inobat.
October 11, 2022 The carbon emissions of producing energy transition metals: Charted From the lithium and cobalt needed for electric vehicle batteries to the rare earth metals which power wind turbines, procuring all of these metals comes at a cost to the…
October 11, 2022 New environmentally friendly method to extract metals from Li-ion batteries launched in Canada Toronto-based researchers are using supercritical fluid extraction to recover metals from end-of-life Li-ion batteries.
October 10, 2022 Stellantis, GME Resources seal nickel and cobalt deal for battery production The deal marks a further move by the world's fourth largest carmaker to lock down supplies of metals needed for batteries that power EV cars.
October 9, 2022 US government includes Li-ion batteries in list of goods produced by child labor The US Department of Labor included lithium-ion batteries among the 158 goods from 77 countries that the department believes are produced by child labor or forced labor.
October 7, 2022 Material degradation inside Li-ion batteries finally understood A Korean research team has succeeded in the real-time observation of the expansion and deterioration of the anode material within Li-ion batteries.
October 6, 2022 First US cobalt mining operation to begin after more than 30-year hiatus Jervois Global is starting the first US cobalt mine in Idaho on Friday, according to chief executive Bryce Crocker.
China pledges to control steel output during 2026-2030 period In the first 11 months of 2025, China's crude steel output fell 4% from a year earlier. December 27, 2025 | 08:20 am
