November 30, 2022

EV battery cathode costs spike as lithium price sets fresh record

Relentless rise of lithium prices and recent bounce in cobalt and nickel put pressure on electric vehicle manufacturers.

November 30, 2022

Fireweed Metals increases Lundin-backed financing; stock hits 52-week high

The funds will provide capital for what the company is calling the "most significant" exploration program ever initiated on its projects in northern Canada.

November 15, 2022

Site visit: Perpetua Resources’ Stibnite gold project in Idaho named preferred alternative – US Forest Service

This month, Perpetua’s modified mine plan was identified as the preferred alternative due to improvements in water quality and temperature and site access benefits. 

November 11, 2022

Germany considers national fund in scramble for raw materials

Germany is already offering loan guarantees to commodity trading houses to buy energy and key metals.

November 7, 2022

Previously unknown mineralogy of deep earth unveiled

New experiments suggest that earth’s deeper lower mantle likely has a mineralogy different from the shallower lower mantle.

November 4, 2022

Buying conflict-free tin and coltan out of Congo just got harder

The Responsible Minerals Initiative said this week that its auditing process won’t recognize the findings of the International Tin Supply Chain Initiative without companies doing extra due diligence on the…

October 31, 2022

Responsible Minerals Initiative cuts ITSCI from approved traceability list

ITSCI is a private sector scheme monitoring tin, tantalum and tungsten mines in Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi for human rights abuses.

October 12, 2022

New research says critical metals for renewable energy products can be found in existing mines

To fill in the gaps and create estimates of critical minerals, geologists developed proxies to estimate tellurium content globally.

October 11, 2022

Rio Tinto’s aging Quebec plant gets $374 million upgrade in critical metals push

Fer et Titane plant in Sorel-Tracy to get upgrades that include electrifying furnaces and replacing coal in a push to cut the facility’s carbon emissions in half by 2030.

September 29, 2022

Niobium could be key to supercapacitators

New research from Umeå University proposes the idea of using niobium molecules as building blocks to design electrochemical energy storage materials.