November 26, 2024

Saudi Arabia secures $9 billion in new mining deals

Investment agreement is one of nine metals and mining deals, totalling over $9 billion, signed by Saudi Arabia with global mining companies.

November 25, 2024

Lucapa Diamond to restart halted Merlin mine

The phased approach will begin with an 18-month initial phase focused on excavating and dredging five existing pits.

November 25, 2024

Rio Tinto-backed lithium tech startup set to raise second round of funds

ElectraLith is developing a filtration technology that can extract lithium from brine deposits without using water or chemicals.

November 22, 2024

Silicon metal tapped to replace graphite in electric vehicle battery anodes

Silicon can hold 10 times as many lithium ions by weight as graphite, but developing the battery technology to scale sustainably has met its share of challenges.

November 22, 2024

Northvolt CEO steps down after bankruptcy filing

Peter Carlsson, co-founder and leader of Northvolt since 2016, will remain as advisor as he quit a day after the firm filed for bankruptcy.

November 21, 2024

Earth AI, Legacy Minerals make first greenfield palladium discovery using artificial intelligence

The companies announced the verified discovery of one of the largest palladium mineral systems in Australia.

November 21, 2024

UK gov’t finds Glencore fell short of business guidelines in Chad

Case centres on a 2018 toxic spill at the Badila oilfield, equivalent in volume to 34 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

November 20, 2024

NEO Battery Materials soars on consortium partnership in South Korea

Over the next five years, the South Korean government is expected to invest C$20 million towards the project.

November 19, 2024

Calgary researcher wins Mitacs Innovation Award for tailings dam monitoring technology

Dr. Susanne Ouellet’s ideas are based in part on her discovery about landslides, where she used DAS to reveal previously unknown slope failure mechanisms.

November 19, 2024

Graphjet opens world’s first commercial-scale green graphite facility in Malaysia

The new facility has the capacity to recycle up to 9,000 tonnes of palm kernel shells annually, producing up to 3,000 tonnes of graphite per year.