April 28, 2022

Vale Indonesia, Huayou sign deal to build Pomalaa nickel plant

They will develop a facility known for a process called high-pressure acid leaching (HPAL), with a potential mixed hydroxide precipitate production capacity of 120,000 tonnes of nickel content per year.

April 27, 2022

GM says it has battery metals secured as industry frets supply

GM’s chief executive officer is confident the automaker will have enough materials to build 400,000 electric vehicles this year and in 2023.

April 27, 2022

Iron man Elon Musk places his Tesla battery bets

Nearly half of the vehicles Tesla produced in Q1 were equipped with LFP batteries - a cheaper rival to the nickel-and-cobalt-based cells that dominate in the West.

April 27, 2022

Column: Automakers go back to the future to secure battery metals

Henry Ford was right all along, it turns out.

April 27, 2022

Australian universities get $173m in funding to turn critical minerals into products, services

The funds will go towards the development of the Resources Technology and Critical Minerals Trailblazer hub.

April 27, 2022

Apple, Tesla, Intel could be using conflict minerals due to faulty scheme

Global Witness says it is not the companies but the ITSCI certification scheme they rely on to vet their suppliers where the problem lies.

April 25, 2022

Rosatom, Nornickel to develop lithium project in Russia

The two Russian companies plan to develop the Kolmozerskoye lithium deposit in the country’s northwestern Murmansk region.

April 25, 2022

Sumitomo abandons Pomalaa nickel project in Indonesia

The Japanese miner cited a disagreement with its partner PT Vale Indonesia as main reason for the move.

April 24, 2022

Head of Mexico City government compares lithium nationalization to that of oil 84 years ago

Claudia Sheinbaum compared the initiative of Andrés Manuel López Obrador to that General Lázaro Cárdenas pushed in 1938.

April 24, 2022

Lithium Energy, Hanaq Group join forces to explore lithium deposits in Argentina

Lithium Energy and Hanaq Group want to find new lithium deposits in the Olaroz-Cauchari endorheic basin, located in Argentina’s northwestern Jujuy province.