December 1, 2020 Pilbara Minerals to buy Altura for $175m on lithium recovery bet Altura entered receivership in October following prolonged weakness in the raw battery materials market.
November 30, 2020 Tianqi Lithium gets 1-month reprieve on $1.9bn loan repayment Company signed a letter with a syndicate of banks to extend by a month the maturity date on $1.884 billion of loans that were due for repayment at the end…
November 27, 2020 Livent opts out of E3 Metals joint development agreement Shares of E3 Metals plunged following the news.
November 27, 2020 EU to secure access to 30 critical raw materials The European Raw Materials Alliance will focus on increasing domestic production and promoting recycling of vital elements, particularly rare earths.
November 26, 2020 CATL to keep close eye on cobalt, lithium, graphite suppliers The battery giant has partnered with RCS Global Group to promote responsible supply chains.
November 26, 2020 Savannah’s Portugal lithium project moves to next permitting phase Mina do Barroso is expected to become Europe’s first significant producer of spodumene, a hard-rock form of lithium.
November 25, 2020 Galaxy Resources to raise $118m for Argentina lithium project Capital raised will be used to advance the first stage of development of the company’s Sal de Vida lithium brine project.
November 23, 2020 Australia’s mining investment embraces gold, battery minerals An uptake in battery technology has driven greater investment in nickel, cobalt, rare earths and lithium.
November 19, 2020 SQM pulls trigger on lithium growth in volume-over-price bet Company is moving ahead with plans to more than double capacity in a bet that accelerating electric-vehicle demand will tighten a currently oversupplied market for the battery metal.
November 19, 2020 Albemarle, Tesla and Uber to jointly push electric car use Together with 27 other companies, they will lobby to reach 100% EV sales in the US by 2030.
Argentina’s cradle of Malbec wine is warming up to copper mining The San Jorge copper-gold project, controlled by Zug-based Zonda Metals, would be a first for Mendoza. December 18, 2025 | 10:49 am
