January 22, 2019

QMC advances Irgon with metallurgical testing

The property lies within the Cat Lake-Winnipeg River rare element pegmatite field.

January 22, 2019

Potential Berkshire US lithium project faces uphill road

Berkshire's geothermal business operates in California's Salton Sea using lithium-rich brine.

January 22, 2019

Mercedes-Benz will produce electric batteries in Poland – PM

The new investment would create 300 jobs and that investments would total over 200 million euros.

January 21, 2019

American Lithium adds vanadium asset to Nevada’s projects mix

Canadian junior has agreed to buy Alaska Nevada Mining’s 100% interest in the Extinction Ridge vanadium project in Nevada, USA.

January 20, 2019

Berkshire’s lithium venture may supply U.S. automakers, including Tesla -FT

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc has signed an agreement to allow extraction of lithium from its geothermal wells in California.

January 18, 2019

Record $93B private capital flows into natural resources

But only sliver of funds raised destined for mining and metals

January 17, 2019

LME to launch seven new contracts on March 11, lithium due in Q4

“We believe that these new cash-settled contracts... will help lower barriers to market entry"

January 17, 2019

Cornish secures further funding to build lithium mine in UK

The funds will enable the company to expand activities in south-west England and to drill exploratory boreholes to extract samples of lithium-bearing brines.

January 16, 2019

Mining the Americas in 2019 — a forecast

Canada's cobalt sector and Ecuador's budding mining sector for copper and gold will be investment hot spots.

January 16, 2019

Chile nuclear watchdog weighs probe into fraud over lithium exports – documents

The internal review found “significant errors” in CCHEN’s accounting of the sales of the world’s top lithium producers Albemarle and SQM between 1984 - 2015.