October 12, 2024 Rio Takes step toward M&A redemption with $6.7 billion lithium bet Modest by comparison with past splurges, the all-cash deal is a significant and long-awaited expansion of Rio’s bet on lithium.
October 11, 2024 Rio Tinto’s real prize: Arcadium’s lithium extraction technology Arcadium, through a predecessor company, was the first to develop an early version of a DLE technology in the 1990s.
October 11, 2024 Copper prices to hit record high in Q4 2024 on Fed cuts and China stimulus – Fastmarkets Analysts expect prices around $10,265 per tonne in the last quarter of the year.
October 11, 2024 Savannah CEO sees lithium price rebound by start of Portugal project Savannah expects to bring the Barroso project onstream as early as possible in 2027.
October 11, 2024 Patriot Lithium expands into copper with Zambia project Patriot believes the Katwaro project will complement its lithium assets and provide jurisdictional diversity.
October 10, 2024 Northvolt says it will be able to pay its upcoming taxes Cash-strapped Northvolt announced in September that it would slim down and cut jobs.
October 10, 2024 Teck CEO says Canada must spend more to erode China’s critical minerals dominance Price noted that Canada has committed $4 billion over eight years to support critical mineral development, compared to $20 billion that China invested in 2023.
October 10, 2024 Mining stocks may drop 20% if US tariffs imposed – JPMorgan The bank cited tariffs as a key factor behind the sector's more than 10% drop in 2017-2018 during the Trump administration.
October 10, 2024 Zimbabwe plans incentives to encourage mineral processing Zimbabwe has banned the export of unprocessed raw lithium and “base minerals” to boost domestic processing.
October 9, 2024 LMFP battery technology breakthrough could increase EV range by 20%, Integrals Power says The company's LMFP materials feature 80% manganese, instead of the 50-70% typically found in competing materials.
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