May 30, 2018 Electric vehicles on the road to triple by 2020 — IEA The number of electric cars, including battery-electric, plug-in hybrid electric and fuel cell electric passenger light-duty vehicles, increased by 57% in 2017 from the previous year.
May 29, 2018 Biggest electric vehicle battery IPO valuation cut in half Time to curb your enthusiasm about the electric vehicle boom and surging demand, prices for lithium, cobalt, nickel, rare earth and graphite?
May 29, 2018 Miners warn Congo it faces $3bn revenue loss over new law The mining companies insist the government reinsert a stability clause, present in the former code.
May 25, 2018 Electric vehicles seen driving cobalt crunch by mid-2020s Demand for electric vehicles, using cobalt in batteries, could spark a deficit of cobalt as soon as 2022.
May 25, 2018 Chinese battery firms join Responsible Cobalt Initiative German car manufacturer Daimler also joined the RCI last month.
May 24, 2018 Report: Mining needs $100–$150 billion to meet EV demand McKinsey asks if the availability and rising prices of cobalt, lithium, copper and nickel will constrain greater electric vehicle penetration.
May 24, 2018 What are “critical” minerals and what is the US going to do about them?: Andy Home The Trump administration is strategizing to reduce import reliance for metals "critical to the economic and national security of the United States."
May 22, 2018 Cobalt 27 agrees to streaming finance deal with Australian miner The transaction is the world's first cobalt-nickel streaming deal on a producing mine, Cobalt 27 said in a statement.
May 21, 2018 It’s not about scoring the big win, it’s about not backing losers MINING.com discusses the state of private equity investment in mining with Michael Scherb founder of Appian Capital.
May 21, 2018 Glencore goes from crisis to crisis with possible bribery probe It’s becoming hard to keep track of all of Glencore’s legal battles in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Chilean regulator to launch ‘unprecedented’ audit of Codelco-SQM lithium deal The regulator said that it was prevented from ruling on most of the claims due to previous court rulings. December 19, 2025 | 08:56 am
