April 23, 2020 Cobalt price, nickel usage limit damage to EV Metal Index Value of cobalt, nickel, graphite and lithium in newly-sold electric cars hold up despite impact of covid-19 as EV industry focus shifts to Europe.
April 23, 2020 China’s EV battery sector frets over supply China’s two biggest lithium suppliers, Tianqi and Ganfeng, have both issued profit warnings recently.
April 16, 2020 CHART: China’s stranglehold on electric car battery supply chain China has not only shoved aside the US for rare earths, cobalt, graphite and lithium production – new study shows it controls 93% of world's manganese going into EVs.
April 15, 2020 American Manganese, Voltabox recycle li-ion batteries Voltabox wants a recycling solution for its end-of-life battery system.
April 7, 2020 DeepGreen to make run for battery metals from seafloor Unlike other seafloor miners, the company doesn’t want to drill, blast or dig the bottom of the ocean.
April 6, 2020 Covid-19 cuts $280bn swathe through top 50 mining companies MINING.COM's ranking of the world's 50 largest mining companies based on market value shows a beleaguered industry at the end of the first quarter 2020.
March 27, 2020 Giyani gets approval for Lobatse environmental plan The Botswana Department of Environmental Affairs has green lighted exploration at manganese project site.
March 17, 2020 Euro Manganese gathers customers for Czech project Company is looking to develop a high-purity manganese production facility to reprocess tailings material from historic mining operations at Chvaletice.
March 17, 2020 VW to start using high-nickel batteries for EVs Next generation batteries will have 80% nickel, 10% cobalt and 10% manganese.
March 3, 2020 MINING.COM launches EV Battery Metals Index The value of metals used in batteries for the nascent electric vehicle industry measured for the first time.
Critical Metals extends mineralization, confirms high-grade HREEs at Tanbreez project Additional drilling across Area B and the Upper Fjord area is considered warranted to further define mineralized scale, continuity and potential resource growth, company said. February 09, 2026 | 12:23 pm