Ocean floor mining a "sustainability conundrum", report says.

The Canadian miner is working on a series of strategies to be applied at the Elon property and the McGee property.

The Australian miner would supply a minimum of 60,000 tonnes of the metal.

Top producers SQM and Albemarle said output nonetheless remained unscathed.

The number of publicly accessible charging points for electric vehicles (EV) jumped 60% in 2019.

The Mines, Petroleum and Gas Board said mining is key to boost the country’s recovery from the impacts of the covid-19 pandemic.

The group projects global EV sales to reach 26 million vehicles by 2030, 9% below its 2019 forecast.

Global new electric passenger sales are forecast to fall by 18% to 1.7 million this year.