Titan Mining starts graphite shipments, feasibility study
New United States graphite producer Titan Mining (NYSE-A, TSX: TII) says it has begun shipments from its demonstration facility in New York State and is moving ahead with feasibility work…
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Bolivia minister pledges ‘legal certainty’ for investors
Bolivia’s new mining minister is vowing to woo back foreign investors in silver, tin and lithium who fled two decades of Socialist Party rule. “We are going to work hard to provide the legal certainty that investors as well as…
Saudi plant is ‘wake-up call’ for Quebec, France: Northern Graphite CEO
Northern Graphite’s (TSX-V: NGC; US-OTC: NGPHF) decision to build a $200-million (C$144-million) battery material plant in Saudi Arabia should serve as a warning for governments in Canada and France, where the miner has been mulling similar…
Northern Graphite to build $200M Saudi plant
Northern Graphite (TSX-V: NGC; US-OTC: NGPHF) agreed with family-controlled Saudi Arabian conglomerate Al Obeikan Group for Investment to jointly build and run a battery material plant in the kingdom after the Canadian…
Rock Tech signs framework agreement with car maker in Germany
Rock Tech Lithium (TSXV: RCK; US-OTC: RCKTF) has signed a framework agreement with an unnamed global car maker headquartered in Germany to supply lithium hydroxide over an initial five-year period….
Sigma Lithium mine to benefit from new rules in Brazil
Sigma Lithium (TSXV: SGML; NASDAQ: SGML) says its 25%-ready Grota do Cirilo lithium project in Brazil will benefit from a presidential decree issued last week allowing unrestricted trade of any…
What the energy transition may bring for five battery metals – report
ING Economics has published a new report in which its experts predict what the energy transition might bring for five key metals: copper, aluminum, nickel, cobalt, and lithium. Taking into…
Cobalt may substitute platinum in fuel cells
A team led by researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the United States have designed a highly active catalyst that contains cobalt interspersed with nitrogen and carbon and…
KoBold Metals employs big data, geoscientists in pursuit of battery metals
KoBold Metals is investing in battery metal projects using big data and scientific computing with capital from billionaires including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. The privately held California-based company has…
Demand for battery metals to jump 500% by 2050, World Bank says
Production of so-called battery metals, such as graphite, lithium and cobalt, will have to increase by nearly 500% by 2050 to meet the growing demand for clean energy technologies, the…