July 29, 2021 Construction begins for Nouveau Monde’s Matawinie mine The Matawinie mine will have the distinction of being the first all-electric open pit mine in the world.
July 23, 2021 Top ten US-based mid-tiers to juniors, excluding coal and precious metals These companies have seen some of the most dramatic increases in valuations as their market caps surged over the course of the last year.
July 21, 2021 Nouveau Monde appoints financial advisers for Matawinie project, shares up The Matawinie graphite project is planned as the first open-pit operation in Canada that will exclusively use electric equipment.
July 19, 2021 EV Metal Index quadruples year-on-year as lithium, nickel prices rally MINING.COM’s tracker of the value of battery metals in newly sold electric cars surges from pandemic lows, grows 18% month-month as lithium and nickel prices resume upward march.
July 9, 2021 Lithium-sulphur batteries one step closer to becoming viable Researchers developed a technique that suppresses polysulfide shuttling in Li-S battery technologies.
July 8, 2021 Technology Metals Snapshot: Eight juniors with properties to watch Many juniors are on the hunt for ‘technology metals,’ a broad category that includes cobalt, copper, nickel, platinum group elements, graphite, lithium, rare earth elements, and silver, among others.
July 7, 2021 Climate-change impacts of graphite production higher than reported — study London-based consultancy Minviro says the true climate change impacts of producing battery-grade graphite can be as much as 10 times higher than published values.
June 30, 2021 CHART: Study predicts over 400% increase in copper, lithium, nickel battery demand BloombergNEF turns super bullish about metals demand for batteries – ups forecast 35% to 2.7 terawatt hours per year by 2030 as electric cars take off.
June 24, 2021 What Canada should do to secure its own supply of critical minerals — report A report presented before the House of Commons states that it is time for the Canadian government to step up its critical minerals game.
June 21, 2021 EV Metal Index jumps 375% year-on-year as lithium price rally continues MINING.COM’s tracker of the value of battery metals in newly sold electric cars surges from pandemic lows, hitting third best month on record as lithium prices continue to rally.
Ghana bans mining in forest reserves to curb environmental damage Africa’s top gold producer is battling a surge in poorly regulated small-scale mining that is destroying cocoa farms, degrading forests and rivers. December 11, 2025 | 07:23 am
