May 13, 2021 Albemarle gears up to tap metal from old cars Company is making investments and partnering with automotive equipment manufacturers on the recycling effort, which it calls “critical” to its future growth.
May 13, 2021 Home: Cobalt, Congo and a mass artisanal mining experiment Congo is embarking on what will be the world's largest mass experiment to try to formalise the artisanal and small-scale mining sector.
May 13, 2021 Portugal may delay lithium licenses auction to 2022 Country has taken longer than expected implementing a new law that grants municipalities more say in mining projects.
May 11, 2021 Eramet obtains lithium from geothermal brine in eastern France The European Union last year added lithium to its critical raw materials list as essential for a shift towards electric vehicles and energy storage.
May 11, 2021 Seafloor mining fever drives $2.9 billion merger Canada's DeepGreen Metals among the companies planning to mine oceans for battery metals.
May 11, 2021 Pilbara Minerals keen to make low-carbon lithium salts Company has signed a deal with minerals technology company Calix Ltd to explore lithium salts production.
May 11, 2021 Minnesota copper project in limbo as officials launch permits review US authorities will review a decision to renew 13 mining permits, including Antofagasta’s Twin Metals copper-nickel project licence.
May 10, 2021 Lithium extraction techniques increasingly under ESG scrutiny – report According to Fitch, automakers with operations inside the EU have already started to invest in more sustainable extraction techniques, placing pressure on lithium producers.
May 10, 2021 Cars keep getting pricier and the commodity boom makes it worse Analysts at JPMorgan estimate the price of an auto’s raw materials have climbed 83% in the year through March.
May 10, 2021 Magnetic nanoparticles to be used to extract lithium from brines in the US The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is ready to field test a technology that uses magnetite to anchor an adsorbent shell that selectively binds lithium and other critical metals.
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