November 10, 2021

Global carmakers now target $515 billion for EVs, batteries

Global automakers are amping up investments aimed at weaning car buyers away from fossil fuels and meeting increasingly tough decarbonization targets.

November 10, 2021

Crypto boom strains Kazakhstan’s coal-powered energy grid

The Central Asian nation of 19 million has become the world's second-biggest bitcoin mining location.

November 10, 2021

Opportunities, challenges of fuel cell EVs in heavy-duty applications – report

A new report by IDTechEx discusses the role of fuel cell EVs when it comes to addressing the need for long-range zero-emission vehicles.

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 9, 2021

CHART: Lagging nickel price defies aenemic supply pipeline

Nickel is the worst performing base metal in 2021, but the metal’s project pipeline covers less than 10% of requirements through 2030, says new report.

November 9, 2021

Automakers say magnesium shortage not a problem, for now

Stellantis and BMW say they do not see an imminent problem with supplies.

November 9, 2021

Chinese-owned steel mill coats Serbian town in red dust; cancer spreads

A municipality of around 100,000 people reported 6,866 cancer cases in 2019, up from 1,738 in 2011.

November 8, 2021

Aurion shares jump on Kinross option on Silaskaira gold project in Finland

The Silaskaira property is on the potential northern extension of the Hanhimaa Shear Zone, currently being explored by Agnico-Eagle and S2 Resources.

November 8, 2021

Polymetal ups capex forecast due to project speed up

Miner has now raised its capex estimate to $610 million in 2022 and $590-million in 2023 compared with a previous forecast of around $500-million in each year.

November 8, 2021

Eramet relaunches lithium project in Argentina with China’s Tsingshan

The agreement with Tsingshan covers the construction of a lithium processing plant from the first quarter of 2022.