June 10, 2021 Apple hires former BMW executive for car project Apple has hired Ulrich Kranz, a former senior executive at BMW's electric car division, to help its vehicle initiatives, Apple confirmed on Thursday.
June 10, 2021 Albemarle to boost extraction in search for green growth The US company is introducing a way of extracting more of the lithium that’s normally captured in salts, thereby lifting yields to 80-85% from 50-55%.
June 10, 2021 US energy storage installations surge in Q1 — report Energy storage deployments are expected to accelerate dramatically over the next 12 months.
June 10, 2021 Ganfeng Lithium to sell $630m of shares to fund expansion The company in March announced an ambitious plan to increase its production capacity roughly fivefold to 600,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent a year.
June 10, 2021 Process for extracting lithium from seawater may be better suited for brine from continental sources Roskill published an analysis with its view on the study that claims to have found an economically viable system to extract high-purity lithium from seawater.
June 10, 2021 Electric vehicles a $7 trillion market opportunity to 2030 – report BloombergNEF forecasts global sales of zero-emission cars rising to 70% of the market by 2040, thus making demand for battery metals soar.
June 9, 2021 EU should promote moratorium on deep-sea mining, lawmakers say Deep-sea mining would extract cobalt, copper, nickel, and manganese from nodules which pepper the sea floor at depths of 4-6 kilometres.
June 9, 2021 Neo Lithium more than doubles 3Q project’s high-grade zone resources The resource is "strategically important" because it requires smaller evaporation ponds to put the project into production, the company says.
June 9, 2021 Cornish Metals’ tin-copper project richer than anticipated Updated estimate for the South Crofty project in Cornwall, England, shows a 10% increase in indicated resources and an almost 130% gain in inferred tin resources.
June 8, 2021 US must work with allies to secure electric vehicle metals – White House Biden has vowed to work with allies to secure minerals needed for EV vehicle batteries and process them domestically.
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