December 11, 2020

Rare earth producers aim to agree global environment standards in 2021

Manufacturers of electronic goods and EVs are under pressure from consumers to push their suppliers to impose sustainability standards.

December 10, 2020

EV Metal Index on course for record year

MINING.COM EV Metal Index, which tracks the value of battery metals in newly registered passenger EVs surge 80% year on year.

December 9, 2020

Largo to supply vanadium to clean energy storage co.

Largo Clean Energy will receive raw materials from the Maracás Menchen mine in Brazil.

December 8, 2020

Minerals and metals demand recovery in 2021 – report

Fitch sees mining and metals capital expenditure improving in 2021, compared with 2020.

December 8, 2020

Tianqi Lithium sells 49% of Australian unit to IGO in $1.4bn deal

Move gives IGO access to the Greenbushes, the world’s biggest hard-rock lithium mine.

December 7, 2020

Biden infrastructure plans will prop up base metals markets

Plans by US President-elect to spend $2 trillion on infrastructure are expected to underpin metals prices in the coming months.

December 7, 2020

IGO in talks to buy into Tianqi’s Greenbushes lithium mine

Australian nickel-gold miner IGO could buy up to a 25% stake, worth close to $1.5 billion, in the world’s biggest hard-rock lithium mine.

December 4, 2020

MINING.COM MINUTE: Biggest stories of the week

Glencore taps coal head Gary Nagle as new CEO; Mining supercycle talk back; Carmakers have blind spot for lithium, cobalt, nickel prices

December 4, 2020

Lithium Americas’ Thacker Pass closer to production

The Nevada project is host to the largest known lithium resource in the US.

December 4, 2020

Standard Lithium makes better-than-battery-quality lithium carbonate

The Vancouver-based company completed the start-to-finish proof of concept of its lithium processing technology.