November 12, 2021 Brazilian, US companies join to push for niobium technology for lithium-ion batteries CBMM recently acquired 20% of US-based start-up Battery Streak with the goal of accelerating new technologies that use niobium for lithium-ion batteries.
November 12, 2021 Greenland Minerals tanks as uranium ban leaves project in limbo Greenland’s decision to ban uranium mining and exploration effectively blocked Kvanefjeld, which would produce the metal as by-product.
November 10, 2021 Value of battery metals in new electric cars set new record MINING.COM’s EV Metal Index hit a new all-time monthly high as lithium, nickel and cobalt prices continue to rise.
November 10, 2021 Greenland bans uranium mining, blocking vast rare earths project The ban affects the Kvanefjeld rare earths project, one of the world’s biggest, as it would have produced uranium as a by-product.
November 5, 2021 New UK magnet factory for EVs should copy Chinese playbook A British magnet factory could be built by 2024 and eventually produce 2,000 tonnes a year of rare earth magnets, enough to supply about 1 million EVs.
November 2, 2021 UN at COP26: “Enough of mining…we are digging our own graves” It did not take long for COP26 to turn into a farce with UN Secretary General António Guterres pleading with the gathered highnesses and excellencies to declare enough is enough.
November 1, 2021 Nova Scotia’s mining focus expands into critical minerals Canada is the only Western nation that has an abundance of cobalt, graphite, lithium, and nickel, essential to creating the batteries and EVs of the future.
October 31, 2021 While China will continue to use rare earths in EVs, Europe trying different options – report According to IDTechEx, Europe is making efforts to decrease the utilization of magnetic materials and especially heavy rare earths in its electric vehicles.
October 29, 2021 Rare earth prices at decade-high amid supply tightness A domestic shortage of rare earths is looming as China, which accounts for 70% of global production.
October 28, 2021 COP26 will be a colossal mining cop-out New report lays out how the green energy transition “starts and ends with metals” but the required exponential growth in mining is a glaring hole in US and global decarbonisation…
Super Copper’s Cordillera project approved by Chile’s National Mining Authority The concessions cover approximately 6,858 hectares in the Atacama copper belt. December 24, 2025 | 11:24 am
