January 14, 2020 Court grants Millennial Lithium mining licenses in Argentina The land tenements used to belong to state-owned company Remsa.
January 14, 2020 Savannah Resources completes licensing for Mozambique JV with Rio Tinto The miner said full tenement permitting of Mutamba is now completed and expects to begin production before year-end.
January 12, 2020 Roskill predicts tight supply of NdFeB magnet rare earths Suppliers are expected to have a hard time keeping up with the demand, as EV production and sales ramp up.
January 10, 2020 Lithium price plunges to 4-year low Market for battery metal in grip of brutal bear market and experts say prices may not have bottomed yet.
January 10, 2020 Apple pushes recycling with robot, but mined metals still needed With the rising popularity of electric vehicles, newly mined minerals will be needed in even larger scale.
January 10, 2020 ‘Rising tide’ to float all battery-metal boats Rising electric vehicle (EV) adoption is driving a massive transformation in lithium-ion battery production.
January 9, 2020 BMW becomes first carmaker to join responsible mining group The luxury vehicle maker plans to ethically source the raw materials to make its electric cars.
January 8, 2020 FPX recoveries from Decar suggest battery market potential Based on nickel recoveries in excess of 98%, the company believes that the resulting solution could be an ideal feed for the production of nickel and cobalt sulphate.
January 8, 2020 Indonesia approves environmental study for battery-grade nickel plants There are at least five of these plants being built in Indonesia currently.
January 7, 2020 Li-Cycle marks first shipment of recycled battery material The shipment contained key energy metals used in lithium-ion batteries, such as cobalt, nickel and lithium, in a concentrate.
ERG signs long-term gallium supply deal with Mitsubishi Kazakhstan, which currently produces no gallium, is set to become the world's second-largest producer. December 20, 2025 | 08:34 am
