Stellantis invests more than $100 million in California lithium project
Mining News Pro - Automaker Stellantis said it would invest more than $100 million in California’s Controlled Thermal Resources, its latest bet on the direct lithium extraction (DLE) sector amid the global hunt for new sources of the electric vehicle battery metal.
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California Steel Industries to Build Galvanizing Line at Fontana Mill
Mining News Pro - Nucor Corporation (NYSE: NUE) announced today that California Steel Industries, Inc. (CSI) will build a continuous galvanizing line at its mill in Fontana, California.
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California lithium tax would delay shipments to automakers
Mining News Pro - A proposed flat-rate tax on lithium produced in California’s Salton Sea region will delay deliveries of the electric vehicle battery metal to General Motors Co and Stellantis NV and may push some mining companies to exit the state entirely, industry executives told Reuters.
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California approves lithium tax despite industry’s warnings
Mining News Pro - Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, approved the tax as part of a must-pass state budget on Thursday. The state legislature had signed off on the levy during deliberations on Wednesday night.
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Is California lithium supply enough for clean energy revolution
Mining News Pro - As the United States seeks to wean itself from fossil fuels, attention is turning to California and its vast reservoir of lithium – an essential component of rechargeable batteries used for electric vehicles, mobile phones, and to store energy from wind and solar power.
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New project to investigate if California’s Lithium Valley is world’s largest brine source of lithium
Mining News Pro - Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Riverside, and Geologica Geothermal Group have launched a project to both quantify and characterize the lithium resource in the Salton Sea geothermal field in California.
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Geothermal brines in California’s Salton Sea could be future source of lithium in the US
Mining News Pro - A literature review prepared by Berkeley Lab scientists found that geothermal brines in the Salton Sea region of California are expected to be a major source of domestic lithium for the United States in the future but that significant technical challenges have to be overcome.
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Stellantis in lithium supply deals with California, German firms
Mining News Pro - Stellantis, the world's fourth-largest automaker with brands that include Jeep and Peugeot, has signed memorandums of understanding for lithium supply with geothermal brine projects in California and Germany, according to two sources.
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KORE Mining finds gold occurrences on California project
Mining News Pro - KORE Mining announced Tuesday it has discovered gold in several dry stream beds between the company’s Imperial gold project and Equinox Gold’s Mesquite gold mine, part of its ongoing exploration within the Mesquite-Imperial-Picacho district.
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California is banning gasoline cars
Mining News Pro - California just started the clock on a future that a few years ago would’ve been unthinkable: dealerships full of nothing but zero-emissions cars.
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Rise Gold one step closer to reopening historic gold mine in California
Mining News Pro - Rise Gold announced that it is one step closer to the reopening of the historic, past-producing Idaho-Maryland gold mine, located in California.
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California rare earths miner races to refine amid US-China trade row
Mining News Pro - The owner of the only US rare earths mine is going on a hiring spree as it looks to significantly boost production, part of a strategy to build out American refining capability after China raised tariffs on the minerals amid an escalating trade war.
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