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 29, 2021

Inexorable decline of EV battery prices coming to an end – report

EV battery costs were approaching parity with gas-powered cars, but Benchmark believes decline may be at an end as lithium prices surge 313% in a year and cobalt, nickel prices…

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…

October 28, 2021

BMO Financial Group vice-chair warns of a potential critical minerals crisis

David Jacobson was the US Ambassador to Canada during President Barack Obama’s first term.

October 27, 2021

Rio Tinto and USGS team up for Montana critical mineral hunt

The USGS will deploy its hi-tech Earth MRI to look for critical minerals.

October 26, 2021

TSLA la land: Tesla vs Volkswagen 2021 battery power comparison

Head to head, gigawatt for gigawatt Tesla vs Volkswagen’s electric car only sales show just how out of whack TSLA’s $1 trillion valuation really is.

October 22, 2021

EU in talks with China to avoid “catastrophic” magnesium crunch

China supplies the block with about 95% of the silvery-white metal used to make aluminum alloys for auto parts.

October 19, 2021

There’s enough tungsten to make over 35 million cubes each year

Surging sales of tungsten cubes may prompt a question: just how much is this weighing on supply of the metal?

October 1, 2021

Silicon’s 300% surge throws another price shock at the world

The metal made from the second-most abundant element on Earth has become scarce.

September 27, 2021

Greenland-focused Greenroc Mining IPOs on the AIM

GreenRoc issues 111.2 million shares at 10p each and expects a market capitalization of £11.1 million upon AIM admission.