April 28, 2022 Top bid for lithium up 140% after Musk’s ‘insane levels’ call Pilbara Minerals Ltd.’s auction of spodumene concentrate attracted a top bid of $5,650 a ton on Wednesday.
April 27, 2022 Pilbara Minerals quarterly output drops as labour crunch bites Shipments of spodumene concentrate tumbled more than 25% from the December quarter.
April 27, 2022 Business group blasts Mexico’s new lithium law as violating trade deal The business group warned that Mexico will have to compensate companies with active mining concessions if their rights are violated.
April 27, 2022 GM says it has battery metals secured as industry frets supply GM’s chief executive officer is confident the automaker will have enough materials to build 400,000 electric vehicles this year and in 2023.
April 27, 2022 Iron man Elon Musk places his Tesla battery bets Nearly half of the vehicles Tesla produced in Q1 were equipped with LFP batteries - a cheaper rival to the nickel-and-cobalt-based cells that dominate in the West.
April 27, 2022 Column: Global miners rank ESG as their top concern. Really? Not one of the biggest listed Western mining companies has an executive with the title of chief ESG officer, writes Clyde Russell.
April 27, 2022 Column: Automakers go back to the future to secure battery metals Henry Ford was right all along, it turns out.
April 27, 2022 Australian universities get $173m in funding to turn critical minerals into products, services The funds will go towards the development of the Resources Technology and Critical Minerals Trailblazer hub.
April 25, 2022 Rosatom, Nornickel to develop lithium project in Russia The two Russian companies plan to develop the Kolmozerskoye lithium deposit in the country’s northwestern Murmansk region.
April 24, 2022 Head of Mexico City government compares lithium nationalization to that of oil 84 years ago Claudia Sheinbaum compared the initiative of Andrés Manuel López Obrador to that General Lázaro Cárdenas pushed in 1938.
Australia lifts commodity export outlook on iron ore, gold price The value of all raw material shipments will be A$383 billion ($253 billion) in the year through June 2026. December 18, 2025 | 10:24 am
