March 21, 2022 Volkswagen unveils Asian ventures to secure nickel, cobalt Volkswagen will form joint ventures with Huayou Cobalt and Tsingshan Group to secure up to 120kt nickel and 15kt cobalt per year.
March 21, 2022 China tells EV battery chain it wants ‘rational’ lithium prices Lithium has soared nearly 500% in the past year.
March 21, 2022 Chinese electric carmaker calls battery price hikes ‘ridiculous’ Car manufacturers are trying to lure more customers just as government subsidies for cleaner vehicles fall away.
March 18, 2022 US unveils battery strategy in West Virginia to ease coal loss The administration also plans to announce nearly $215 million in Interior Department funding to clean up abandoned mines in West Virginia.
March 17, 2022 The Metals Company signs MoU for PFS on world’s first deep-sea nodule processing plant The polymetallic nodule fields in the CCZ of the Pacific represent the largest known undeveloped nickel resource on the planet.
March 17, 2022 5 CHARTS: Mining supercycle – how soon is now? Pent-up demand, supply shocks, low stocks pushed aluminum, copper and coal prices to all-time highs, but new report suggests supercycle talk is premature.
March 17, 2022 Eramet, Suez eye EV battery recycling in France by 2024 The joint project would produce black mass, a metal concentrate containing nickel, cobalt, manganese, lithium and graphite that is suitable for hydrometallurgical refining.
March 17, 2022 VW joins sustainable mining initiative to boost scrutiny Other carmaker members of IRMA include General Motors and Ford.
March 15, 2022 Gravity-defying lithium price rally continues with “little relief in sight” Chinese lithium prices double again in 2022, Benchmark’s mid-March assessment shows with seasonal restart of domestic brine supply unlikely to counter growing deficits.
March 15, 2022 VW is already sold out of some electric models for the year Europe’s biggest automaker is pushing ahead with the industry’s biggest rollout of electric cars to challenge Tesla.
Mass layoffs overshadow Guinea’s Simandou mega mine as output accelerates The project is laying off thousands of workers just as it begins exporting iron ore after decades of delays and corruption scandals. December 18, 2025 | 10:26 am
