March 4, 2021 Green revolution gets more expensive as copper price rallies Copper is a vital part of green infrastructure from grids to wind turbines, and a recent price surge threatens to make decarbonization more costly.
March 4, 2021 Resource nationalism surge spells rough times for miners Resource nationalism has been on the rise over the past year, but Verisk Maplecroft believes the worst is yet to come for miners as governments try to claw back the…
March 3, 2021 Energy storage boom to propel zinc battery demand, industry association says Annual demand for zinc in batteries was only 600 tonnes in 2020 but that figure is projected to rise to 77,500 tonnes in 2030
March 3, 2021 Advance Gold to enter battery metals space The Canadian company wants to acquire 13 lithium-potassium-boron prospective salars in central Mexico.
March 2, 2021 Minerals exploration in Australia jumps as supercycle looms Spending on exploration in Australia rose in the December quarter to its highest in over seven years.
March 2, 2021 Canada Silver Cobalt working on new battery recycling initiative The project uses the hydrometallurgical Re-2Ox process to recover metals from lithium-ion, nickel-hydride and nickel-cadmium batteries.
March 1, 2021 To go electric, America needs more mines. Can it build them? Biden plans to allow mines that produce EV metals to be developed under existing environmental standards, rather than face a tightened process that would apply to other materials.
March 1, 2021 Standard Lithium produces high-purity lithium carbonate, shares up The company has completed the conversion of its Arkansas-produced lithium chloride into 99.985% pure lithium carbonate.
March 1, 2021 New lead battery technology could be lower-cost solution to store solar energy Engineers are working to incorporate a bipolar technology that uses silicon wafers in traditional lead batteries.
February 26, 2021 Nickel, cobalt price: 10 charts show China’s grip on battery supply chain to last decades Beijing's response to Biden executive order on critical minerals: "Artificial efforts to shift these chains and to decouple is not realistic."
Ioneer eyes bid for Rio Tinto’s US boron unit Boron, an element mineral with few producers, was added to the US list of critical minerals last month. December 12, 2025 | 02:49 pm
