Wood Mackenzie boosts battery metals expertise with Roskill buy
Wood Mackenzie announced on Friday it had acquired Roskill, a privately-owned company and leader in metals and materials supply chain intelligence, boosting the consultancy’s expertise…
Battery metals
Largo Resources to capture 3% of clean energy storage market by 2025
Integrated vanadium producer Largo Resources (TSX: LGO; OTCQB: LGORF) is charting a course towards capturing 3% or about 1,400 megawatt-hours of the long-duration energy storage…
Australia’s Wyloo proposes ‘Future Metals hub’ for Ontario
After announcing its intention last week to make a $133 million offer to acquire Noront Resources (TSXV: NOT), Australia’s Wyloo Metals still hasn’t made a…
Canada has “right ingredients” to be EV battery leader
Canada has a “once-in-generation” opportunity to establish itself as a major player in the global battery sector, but it needs to act fast to seize the…
Report looks at recycling battery metals to meet rising demand
A new report suggests that recycled metals could meet a significant part of the rising demand from electric vehicles (EVs), decreasing some of the need…
Battery and ‘green’ metals brighten outlook for mining sector
The transition to electric vehicles could take a decade or two but demand for the key metals in batteries and energy storage systems will only…
Managing the trifecta: Three forces set to power lithium-ion supply chains
The recent grounding in the Suez Canal of the Ever Given, a 20,000 TEU container ship, has highlighted the fragility of global oil supply and…
The uncertainty lurking in auto propulsion technology
There is a great deal of uncertainty about what the future of automotive propulsion technology will be. This presents challenges to capital formation and allocation….
The View from England: Batteries are a welcome spark for the mining sector
The international mining industry is in the early stages of the biggest collective boost it has received for almost 50 years. Arguably, the most recent…
Congo launches state-owned cobalt miner
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has officially begun operations at Entreprise Générale du Cobalt (EGC), a state-owned company with monopoly rights to the…
Vale sells New Caledonia nickel assets to Trafigura
Vale (NYSE: VALE) has concluded the sale of its nickel and cobalt operations in New Caledonia, a French territory in the Pacific, to a consortium…
Mick Davis launches US$300 million battery metals SPAC
Former Xstrata boss Mick Davis’ newly founded battery metals investment firm Vision Blue Resources is stepping up efforts to reach the goal of becoming a…