April 6, 2021 Greenpeace stages Pacific Ocean protest against deep-sea mining Last week BMW, Volvo Group, Samsung SDI and Google signed on to a World Wildlife Fund call for a moratorium on the practice.
April 6, 2021 Panoramic Resources to restart nickel project in Australia To support the resuming of operations, Panoramic has entered a five-year nickel and copper concentrate offtake agreement with Trafigura Group.
April 5, 2021 The US has a metals problem Years of neglecting its critical metal supplies is catching up with the United States, as demand for the raw materials needed to build a new green economy that rejects fossil…
April 5, 2021 Former US assistant secretary for energy resources joins Standard Lithium board Francis Fannon also previously served as Senior Director for Government Affairs for Murphy Oil Corporation.
April 5, 2021 The next electric-car battery champion could be European After years of ceding the EV battery business to foreign companies, Europe wants in.
April 5, 2021 Tesla’s market value set to gain $50 billion on record EV deliveries Tesla delivered 184,800 vehicles globally during the first quarter of 2021, above estimates of 177,822 vehicles.
April 5, 2021 Raw materials from EV battery recycling have smaller carbon footprint – study Finnish researchers used simulation-based life-cycle to account for emissions and energy and water consumption in the recycling process.
April 2, 2021 The View from England: Batteries are a welcome spark for the mining sector The international mining industry is in the early stages of the biggest collective boost it has received for almost 50 years.
April 2, 2021 Saudi Arabia of cobalt: Congo eyes battery metal price power The new state cobalt buyer wants to have a monopoly on all hand-dug cobalt in the central African country.
April 1, 2021 In the meme-stock era, even bad Voltswagen jokes are worth billions You can’t blame VW for wanting a little bit of Tesla’s glamour. But its April Fools’ Day calamity shows the dangers of trying to be cool and funny.
How a reclusive ex-Glencore trader became Indonesia’s nickel king Arif Kurniawan has gone from earning paychecks at Glencore to controlling approximately a third of his country’s domestic trade in nickel ore. December 28, 2025 | 03:25 pm