April 21, 2024

New process recovers five times more lithium from waste than existing technology

Scientists discovered that aluminum hydroxide can adsorb five times more lithium than can be collected using previously developed adsorbent materials.

April 19, 2024

Albemarle amongst recipients of tax credits under Biden’s clean energy drive

Thirty five projects got a total of $1.93 billion in tax credits.

April 19, 2024

US restricts drilling and mining in Alaska wilderness, angering state leaders

The Interior Department finalized a regulation to block oil and gas development on 40% of Alaska's National Petroleum Preserve.

April 18, 2024

Lithium Americas plunges after shares sold at steep discount

Shares of the lithium explorer fell as much as 27% in New York.

April 18, 2024

Column: Funds buy back into copper’s supercycle credentials

The impact of fund flows on the current price dynamics may be a harbinger of things to come.

April 18, 2024

NioCorp eyes rare earth magnet recycling

Research will focus on creating a process to convert used neodymium-iron-boron magnets into rare earth oxides for new magnet production.

April 18, 2024

US states, tribes receive $124.8 million for land reclamation work

The grants are funded, in part, by a fee collected on all coal produced in the United States.

April 18, 2024

Tesla co-founder JB Straubel has built an EV battery colossus

Last month, Redwood Materials flipped the switch on its first commercial-scale line producing a fine black powder essential to electric vehicle batteries.

April 18, 2024

Lithium Americas to raise $275 million for Thacker Pass mine

The financing comes a month after the US unveiled plans to lend it $2.26 billion to build the project.

April 17, 2024

MSHA issues final rule to better protect miners from silica dust exposure

The final rule lowers the permissible exposure limit of respirable crystalline silica to 50 micrograms per cubic meter of air for a full-shift exposure.