October 19, 2022 Biden awards $2.8 billion to boost US minerals output for EV batteries Albemarle and Piedmont are among the 20 manufacturing and processing companies winning US Energy Department grants.
October 18, 2022 Researchers better understand what it takes to improve EV batteries’ performance A scientific team tracked the real-time movement of lithium ions inside layered lithium nickel-rich oxides.
October 17, 2022 Column: Xi’s commitment to energy transition is mixed for commodities Commodity markets were given little to cheer about in President Xi Jinping’s address to the Communist Party Congress.
October 17, 2022 Posco’s bold battery materials push dimmed by new US energy bill By 2030, the Seoul-based steel giant forecasts it will have a production capacity of around 605,000 tons for cathode-active materials.
October 16, 2022 Australian lithium miner IGO says chief executive died suddenly Peter Bradford had led IGO since March 2014 and was also president of the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies.
October 14, 2022 The world’s top 10 lithium mining companies Lithium prices hit an all-time high this week as battery makers scramble to secure supply amid booming demand.
October 13, 2022 Lithium price jumps to fresh all-time high Benchmark Mineral Intelligence says spot market pricing will feed through to long term contracts signed by automakers.
October 12, 2022 Column: How do you accelerate energy transition when current crisis slams the brakes If the answer to the energy crisis is a faster rollout of renewable alternatives to fossil fuels, then the problem is that the current situation is hindering the solution.
October 11, 2022 Volatility storm adds to pain for Chile’s battered markets White-knuckle trading in Chilean assets is erasing the final traces of the country’s reputation as the most stable of Latin America.
October 11, 2022 New environmentally friendly method to extract metals from Li-ion batteries launched in Canada Toronto-based researchers are using supercritical fluid extraction to recover metals from end-of-life Li-ion batteries.
US development-finance agency targets AI, minerals in expansion A key priority for the DFC’s expanded efforts will be critical minerals, especially in mid-stream processing projects. December 18, 2025 | 12:30 pm
