April 17, 2018 Rare earths extracted from coal mining by-products Researchers at West Virginia University expect to start extracting, refining and taking to market rare earth elements in a couple of years.
April 16, 2018 Chinese investors key as cobalt price hits month low Cobalt27 CEO lines up Chinese automaker deals, ponders HK listing: “There is a lot of interest and it is natural because it is where all this will happen”.
April 13, 2018 Shares in lithium developer pop on $150m streaming deal Nemaska Lithium agreement with private equity giant Orion Mine Finance comes a week after $100B Japanese technology fund bought a stake in Quebec-based firm.
April 13, 2018 CMOC Intl CEO Madhavpeddi leaves mining giant The parent group's Executive Chairman Chaochun Li has replaced him as acting CEO.
April 12, 2018 Impact of electric cars in medium-term copper demand ‘overrated’, experts say Increasing disposable income in emerging economies and the adoption of greener technologies, are the two factors to drive most of the expected increased demand in copper during the next five…
April 12, 2018 Eurasian Resources Group: market outlook 2018 The past couple of months have featured a broad retracement of the metals complex, away from the recent highs.
April 12, 2018 Critical Materials Institute research in tech metals expands with demand for electric vehicles The lithium and cobalt research is part of a larger effort totaling 36 separate projects for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Innovation Hub.
April 12, 2018 ‘Urban mining’ in S.Korea pulls rare battery materials from recycled tech In 2016, the most recent year from which data is available, 19.6 trillion won ($18.38 billion) worth of metals were extracted from recycled materials.
April 10, 2018 Korea’s LG Chem to set up battery material JVs with China’s Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt LG Chem to raise $224.8 mln by 2020 to set up two JVs.
April 10, 2018 Copper supply crunch earlier than predicted — experts Copper production will peak in the second half of 2019, making a growing supply deficit much more real.
How 2026 will reshape the US critical mineral resilience Emerging federal activity shows two key themes: growing support for high-risk minerals and renewed focus on domestic processing technologies. December 21, 2025 | 04:00 am
