April 6, 2021 GRAPH: Global metal and ore production at a glance Critical metals and minerals are a tiny sliver of a sliver of global mining production.
April 6, 2021 Greenpeace stages Pacific Ocean protest against deep-sea mining Last week BMW, Volvo Group, Samsung SDI and Google signed on to a World Wildlife Fund call for a moratorium on the practice.
April 5, 2021 The US has a metals problem Years of neglecting its critical metal supplies is catching up with the United States, as demand for the raw materials needed to build a new green economy that rejects fossil…
April 5, 2021 The next electric-car battery champion could be European After years of ceding the EV battery business to foreign companies, Europe wants in.
April 5, 2021 Tesla’s market value set to gain $50 billion on record EV deliveries Tesla delivered 184,800 vehicles globally during the first quarter of 2021, above estimates of 177,822 vehicles.
April 5, 2021 Raw materials from EV battery recycling have smaller carbon footprint – study Finnish researchers used simulation-based life-cycle to account for emissions and energy and water consumption in the recycling process.
April 2, 2021 UEX hits high-grade cobalt-nickel mineralization at West Bear Highlights include 9.5 metres grading 0.39% cobalt and 0.62% nickel starting from 77.5 metres.
April 2, 2021 Saudi Arabia of cobalt: Congo eyes battery metal price power The new state cobalt buyer wants to have a monopoly on all hand-dug cobalt in the central African country.
April 1, 2021 In the meme-stock era, even bad Voltswagen jokes are worth billions You can’t blame VW for wanting a little bit of Tesla’s glamour. But its April Fools’ Day calamity shows the dangers of trying to be cool and funny.
April 1, 2021 DBS co-leads $625m finance deal in Indonesia battery metals project The project by PT Halmahera Persada Lygend (PT HPAL) is expected to be the first smelter in Indonesia to use high-pressure acid leach (HPAL) technology to produce nickel and cobalt…
Capstone Copper faces strike at Mantoverde mine in Chile Output is expected to run at up to 30% of normal levels during the stoppage, it said. January 02, 2026 | 07:53 am
