December 10, 2020

EV Metal Index on course for record year

MINING.COM EV Metal Index, which tracks the value of battery metals in newly registered passenger EVs surge 80% year on year.

December 10, 2020

Rio Tinto confirms potential for Jadar project in Serbia

Company has declared a maiden ore reserve of 16.6-million tonnes, grading 1.18% lithium oxide and 13.4% boron trioxide at its lithium/borate project in Serbia.

December 9, 2020

‘Green stimulus packages’ key driver for base metal demand, says analyst

“The path to economic recovery will be long and slow,” says Intl FCStone metals analyst Natalie Scott-Gray.

December 8, 2020

Tianqi Lithium sells 49% of Australian unit to IGO in $1.4bn deal

Move gives IGO access to the Greenbushes, the world’s biggest hard-rock lithium mine.

December 7, 2020

IGO in talks to buy into Tianqi’s Greenbushes lithium mine

Australian nickel-gold miner IGO could buy up to a 25% stake, worth close to $1.5 billion, in the world’s biggest hard-rock lithium mine.

December 4, 2020

MINING.COM MINUTE: Biggest stories of the week

Glencore taps coal head Gary Nagle as new CEO; Mining supercycle talk back; Carmakers have blind spot for lithium, cobalt, nickel prices

December 4, 2020

Lithium Americas’ Thacker Pass closer to production

The Nevada project is host to the largest known lithium resource in the US.

December 4, 2020

Standard Lithium makes better-than-battery-quality lithium carbonate

The Vancouver-based company completed the start-to-finish proof of concept of its lithium processing technology.

December 3, 2020

Carmakers have blind spot for lithium, cobalt, nickel prices

New research report has a warning for electric carmakers about the direction of battery prices without incentives to build new mines.

December 1, 2020

Trump taps loan program he tried to kill to help mining

The loan program was created to help fund clean energy technology programs and electric vehicles.