China’s CATL is developing new EV battery with no nickel, cobalt, exec says The new battery type will be different from existing NCA, NCM and LFP batteries and will have no expensive metals like nickel or cobalt. Reuters | August 16, 2020 | 7:25 am
Tianqi Lithium president leaves embattled Chinese firm Vivian Wu left the company as Tianqi looks for a way out of a perilous financial situation. Reuters | August 16, 2020 | 7:16 am
Four people die in accident near coal mine of Russia’s Severstal The workers were demolishing a building near a coal mine owned by Severstal. Reuters | August 16, 2020 | 7:00 am
Lithium in Bolivia: “always a possibility never a reality” – interview DCDB Research’s Emily Hersh explains why the Andean country hasn’t been able to build a sustainable lithium industry. Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | August 16, 2020 | 6:15 am
Platinum, copper, nickel alloy may be key for smart biomedical devices Researchers in Switzerland have used a platinum, copper, nickel and phosphorous alloy to develop an electrically conductive fibre. Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | August 16, 2020 | 6:00 am
How Cornish Lithium plans to produce lithium with a net-zero footprint Jeremy Wrathall, CEO of the junior mining company, explained the environmentally friendly process to MINING.COM. Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | August 16, 2020 | 5:30 am
Gold miners’ Q2 2020 fundamentals Revenues, earnings, operating cash flows, and cash all soared dramatically last quarter. Adam Hamilton - Zeal Intelligence | August 14, 2020 | 2:20 pm
Indigenous groups in Chile’s Atacama push to shut down SQM In 2019 the Atacama Indigenous Council (CPA) filed a lawsuit demanding regulators scrap a $25 million remediation plan. Reuters | August 14, 2020 | 1:32 pm
Turkish gold fever spurs dollar oddity unseen in Erdogan era US currency bills in the Grand Bazaar have been trading at the biggest premium relative to the official exchange rate since 2002. Bloomberg News | August 14, 2020 | 11:50 am