October 17, 2021 What the energy transition may bring for five battery metals – report London-based ING Economics predicts what the ongoing energy transition might bring for copper, aluminum, nickel, cobalt, and lithium.
October 15, 2021 Value of battery metals in new electric cars up 180% to $600m In August, MINING.COM’s EV Metal Index hit the second best total on record as lithium, nickel and cobalt prices continue to rise.
October 15, 2021 Green Energy Metals: Eight companies with big ambitions Companies on the global hunt for lithium, nickel, copper, cobalt, and PGMs wherever they are.
October 13, 2021 Europe’s carmakers face raw material bottleneck for EV batteries Major carmakers like Volkswagen, Daimler and Stellantis have been racing to secure battery cell supplies in Europe.
October 13, 2021 Tesla inks multi-year nickel supply deal with Prony Resources The New Caledonian miner will provide the US carmaker with about 42,000 tonnes of the metal needed to produce batteries that power its EVs.
October 11, 2021 International Nickel Study Group forecasts rising nickel demand in 2022 Exports of unprocessed nickel ore from Indonesia, the world’s top nickel miner, ceased in January 2020, due to a government-imposed ban.
October 11, 2021 Scientists explore possibility of mining iron, nickel, cobalt-rich near-earth asteroids Metal-rich asteroids are similar to some stony-iron meteorites found on Earth.
October 10, 2021 The hottest party in the metals world is back, but much smaller LME Week resumes amid continued covid risk.
October 8, 2021 US narrows gap with China in race to dominate battery supply chain – report The United States has moved up on BloombergNEF's Global Lithium-Ion Battery Supply Chain Ranking.
October 8, 2021 Vale opens door to base metal merger once its house is in order The world’s second-largest producer of iron ore continues to weigh up the pros and cons of forming a separate company with its copper and nickel mines in Canada, Brazil and…
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