April 12, 2019

Lithium giant lifts outlook with 2018 fizzle in rear-view mirror

Chile's SQM, the world’s second-largest lithium miner, said expansion plans had gone better than expected and that sales would likely beat its forecasts for this year.

April 11, 2019

Australia to host battery research centre

The centre will investigate opportunities for greater efficiencies in the extraction and refinement of battery minerals.

April 10, 2019

Lynas board turns down $1.1B Wesfarmers bid

The rare earths miner said its board had concluded it would not engage with retail and industrial conglomerate Wesfarmers, stating its unsolicited takeover offer undervalues Lynas' intellectual property.

April 10, 2019

First Vanadium says Nevada project resource estimate exceeds expectations

The company, which in March more than doubled the size of the vanadium property, believes that Carlin’s maiden resource will provide a base for an economic study.

April 8, 2019

Lynas weighs up rare earths processing in Australia as Malaysia ups pressure

Lynas, one of the world’s main suppliers of rare earths outside China, said it was open to processing materials closer to its Australian mine if that meant it can renew…

April 5, 2019

$6 billion private capital ready to invest in mining

Fundraising by unlisted funds for investment in natural resource reached a record $93 billion last year.

April 5, 2019

Japan’s Mitsui injects $30m into Sigma’s lithium project in Brazil

The Japanese trading house is backing Sigma's Grota do Cirilo hard rock lithium project, in the south-eastern province of Minas Gerais.

April 2, 2019

Frontier Lithium to build demonstration plant for battery metals products

The plant is expected to produce up to 15,000 tonnes of lithium concentrate (spodumene) per year from samples taken at the PAK deposit, located in Canada's northwestern Ontario.

April 2, 2019

Cannabis mania mows down Canada’s junior mining sector

There is enough evidence to conclude that risk capital has found a new home, a BDO report shows. The question now is, how and where will junior miners find the…

March 31, 2019

Researchers learn to produce borophene on a gold surface

Borophene is the atom-flat form of boron. The findings constitute a step toward practical applications like wearable or transparent electronics.