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• Which Country Is The World’s Largest Investor In Batteries?

  Published 18 April 2021 | viewed 14,825 times

  In 2020, Fitch Solutions analysts recorded 37 manufacturing projects for EV batteries and related components and materials worth $21.04 billion, for those projects disclosing financial details. The…

• Tesla's Biggest Competitor Is Going Cobalt-Free

  Published 10 April 2021 | viewed 12,805 times

  China’s BYD confirmed that it is going all-in on LFP (lithium-iron-phosphate) batteries, scrapping NCM (nickel, cobalt, manganese) technology from its model line-up entirely. BYD, which…

• Canada May Become Leader In Booming Battery Market

  Published 29 March 2021 | viewed 4,433 times

  “Canada has great potential to become a leader in the global Li-ion battery market,” a new analysis by Roskill states. The research firm published the insight following…

• The Star-Studded Fund Backing Clean Energy Startups

  Published 19 January 2021 | viewed 3,068 times

  Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV), the clean-tech fund backed by well-known billionaires including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Michael Bloomberg, has raised $1 billion for the second time…

• Gold Slips Following Stimulus Announcement

  Published 28 December 2020 | viewed 11,102 times

  Gold prices retreated on Monday following US President Donald Trump’s signing of a long-awaited pandemic aid bill, which pushed bullion to a one-week high earlier.…

• EV Metal Index Soars To Record Heights

  Published 11 December 2020 | viewed 9,254 times

  The MINING.COM EV Metal Index, which tracks the value of battery metals in newly registered passenger EVs (including hybrids) around the world fell back from…

• Why Chinese Rare Earth Prices Are Soaring

  Published 04 December 2020 | viewed 8,352 times

  BMO Capital Markets says that a surge in the price of Chinese rare earth metals in November is a reflection of the geopolitical tensions between…

• New Breakthrough Could Transform Rare Earth Mining

  Published 12 October 2020 | viewed 14,675 times

  Researchers at the University of Exeter and the Australian National University published a study that may help pinpoint new, untapped neodymium and dysprosium deposits. In…

• U.S. Takes Stake In Irish Battery Metal Producer

  Published 06 October 2020 | viewed 13,476 times

  The US government is taking a $25 million equity stake in Dublin-based battery metals miner TechMet, as part of a push by President Donald Trump…

• Can Tesla Really Produce A $25,000 Self-Driving Electric Car?

  Published 26 September 2020 | viewed 8,165 times

  During Tuesday’s much-hyped battery day, Tesla CEO Elon Musk laid out plans to put everyone behind the wheel (or is that sleeping in the back)…

• Rhodium Climbs Reaches Record Highs

  Published 24 September 2020 | viewed 12,064 times

  The rhodium price has been on a stomach-churning ride this year, rocketing from $6,050 an ounce at the start of 2020 to a high of $13,800 an…

• Tesla's "Battery Day" Could Deal A Blow To Cobalt Miners

  Published 21 September 2020 | viewed 13,248 times

  Elon Musk’s electric car company Tesla hosts its annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 22, followed by the highly anticipated “battery technology day”, a worldwide live-streamed event during which the…

• Gold Output Set To Decline

  Published 19 September 2020 | viewed 7,684 times

  The suspension of mining activities due to the covid-19 outbreak in the second quarter of this year will result in a 1.7% decline in global…

• COVID-19 Is Crushing Palladium Demand

  Published 17 September 2020 | viewed 9,589 times

  The global palladium market deficit is expected to “narrow significantly” this year, says Heraeus Precious Metals, one of the world’s largest platinum group metals (PGM) refiners.…

• Gold Inches Closer To $2,000

  Published 14 September 2020 | viewed 10,141 times

  Gold prices advanced higher on Monday as a weaker US dollar and expectations that the US Federal Reserve will reiterate its dovish monetary policy stance…

• Electric Vehicle Demand Set To Outpace Battery Metal Production

  Published 12 September 2020 | viewed 10,877 times

  Nearly 800 kt LCE of additional lithium would need to come online in the next five years to meet the needs of the battery sector,…

• The Unsung Hero In The Race To Go Green

  Published 07 September 2020 | viewed 8,738 times

  An international team of researchers has discovered that carbon dioxide plays a crucial role in making metals used in green technologies accessible for mining. In…

• Gold Prices Sink On Economic Optimism

  Published 02 September 2020 | viewed 11,362 times

  Gold prices fell further on Wednesday as the US dollar strengthened, while a strong rebound in the nation’s manufacturing sector fuelled hopes of a recovery in the…

• This Battery Could Last For 28,000 Years

  Published 31 August 2020 | viewed 5,653 times

  US startup NDB, a company that says it has created the first and only universal, self-charging nano-diamond battery that provides thousands of years of charge,…

• Canada Set To Build $24 Million Rare Earth Processing Plant

  Published 29 August 2020 | viewed 9,053 times

  Canada will have rare earth processing plant in operation by the end of 2022 as the province of Saskatchewan has committed C$31 million (about $24m) to…