June 3, 2022

Great Salt Lake plants, insects absorb toxic metals from surrounding mines, refineries

Plants in Utah’s Great Salt Lake wetland ecosystems pull hazardous metal pollution from the lake and sometimes pass it up the food chain, new research has found.

June 2, 2022

How a cheap component could help kill off combustion cars

The humble wire harness has become an unlikely scourge of the auto industry.

June 2, 2022

BofA identifies the prime causes of violent metal short squeezes

LME inventories and non-commercial futures positioning are the primary drivers of metals short squeezes.

June 2, 2022

Gold price rises on dollar slump, weak private payroll data

Spot gold rose 1.3% to reach its highest in nearly a month.

June 2, 2022

Stellantis secures lithium supply from California for EV batteries

Controlled Thermal Resources (CTR) will supply the owner of Jeep and Peugeot with up to 25,000 metric tons per year of lithium hydroxide.

June 2, 2022

Electrification of heavy-duty long-haul operations key to reaching net-zero on road transport by 2050 – report

Experts at BloombergNEF believe that battery-electric trucks are likely to become a viable option for heavy-duty long-haul operations by the end of the 2020s.

June 1, 2022

Lithium mining stocks plunge after Goldman sees “sharp correction”

Billions wiped off sector after Goldman says bull market “over for now" but Chinese lithium prices have begun to tick upwards again.

June 1, 2022

US needs to take urgent steps to prevent getting ‘shut out’ from critical minerals, says researcher  

President Joe Biden authorized the Defense Production Act to increase battery metals production and reduce the country’s reliance on China and Russia.

May 31, 2022

India’s top e-recycler to spend $1bn on expansions as EVs take off

Attero is seeking to recycle over 300,000 metric tons of lithium-ion battery waste annually by 2027.

May 31, 2022

Gold price set for second straight monthly loss

There is this expectation from the market that Biden might press the Fed to do more to fight these inflationary pressures, analyst said.