Battery metal prices are on the floor, and massive expansions by Chinese miners have been instrumental in driving them lower. Now, with many Western rivals cutting output or shutting down entirely, they want to get even bigger.

Tuesday, March 26, 2024 - 22:08:59

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Mining News Pro - Canadian lithium explorer Patriot Battery Metals refuted on Monday claims published in a short-seller report, stating the assertions made by Night Market Research were “factually inaccurate and misleading.”

Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 00:20:08

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Mining News Pro - Vale SA recruited former Anglo American Plc boss Mark Cutifani to lead an independent board that will oversee its new base metals subsidiary, the Brazilian mining giant said on an earnings call Thursday.

Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 11:10:20

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Chile, the world’s top copper producer and the second largest lithium miner, will drop tariffs on all imports from the EU, except sugar, and make it easier for European companies to invest in the country, the European Commission said.

Saturday, December 10, 2022 - 10:43:06

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Mining News Pro - Elon Musk had plenty of advice for the mining and metals industry at the company’s Battery Day event in September 2020, where the road map to a $25,000 Tesla was laid out.

Friday, August 26, 2022 - 19:16:37

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Mining News Pro - Global battery and minerals supply chains need to expand ten-fold to meet projected critical minerals needs by 2030, a report published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) has found.

Saturday, August 6, 2022 - 13:26:13

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Mining News Pro - Goldman Sachs paper warns it is 'the end of the beginning' for the battery metals bull market

Thursday, July 7, 2022 - 10:46:18

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Mining News Pro - Canada’s Toronto Stock Exchange will launch on Tuesday a battery metals index to support the critical minerals sector and offer insights into the energy transition.

Tuesday, June 7, 2022 - 13:20:30

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Mining News Pro - Sibanye Stillwater Ltd. chief executive officer Neal Froneman plans to resume battery-metals acquisitions within two to three years, once inflated asset valuations come down.

Tuesday, May 10, 2022 - 13:42:02

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Mining News Pro - A recent study by KU Leuven University shows that meeting the European Union’s Green Deal goal of climate neutrality by 2050 will require 35 times more lithium and 7 to 26 times the amount of rare earth metals compared to Europe’s current use.

Monday, May 2, 2022 - 12:48:00

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Mining News Pro - Henry Ford was right all along, it turns out.

Thursday, April 28, 2022 - 14:31:46

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Mining News Pro - Silver Elephant Mining and Battery Metals Royalties have announced that they have entered into a binding letter of intent pursuant to which Battery proposes to acquire a 45% equity interest of Silver Elephant’s wholly owned Mega Thermal Coal Corp. (formerly Asia Mining Inc.), which owns and operates the Ulaan Ovoo and Chandgana thermal coal mines in Mongolia through Mega Coal’s wholly-owned Mongolian subsidiaries for $6.3 million.

Wednesday, April 6, 2022 - 13:43:24

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Mining News Pro - President Joe Biden plans Thursday to invoke Cold War powers to encourage domestic production of critical minerals for electric-vehicle and other types of batteries, according to people familiar with the matter.

Thursday, March 31, 2022 - 13:13:37

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Mining News Pro - KoBold Metals, a start-up backed by a coalition of billionaires including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, has raised $192.5 million in its latest financing round, which will allow it to speed up efforts to find new deposits of critical metals needed for batteries and clean energy.

Friday, February 11, 2022 - 12:50:20

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Mining News Pro - As the pace and shape of the global transition to a greener economy has become a key issue globally, the need for battery metals will grow up to four times in the next 30 years, Vandita Pant, BHP’s chief commercial officer, said on Wednesday at the FT Commodities Asia Summit.

Friday, November 19, 2021 - 13:14:17

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Mining News Pro - As the pace and shape of the global transition to a greener economy has become a key issue globally, the need for battery metals will grow up to four times in the next 30 years, Vandita Pant, BHP’s chief commercial officer, said on Wednesday at the FT Commodities Asia Summit.

Thursday, November 18, 2021 - 13:28:42

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Mining News Pro - Common assumptions that state that demand for battery metals will continue to increase for the foreseeable future, as they are essential for high-performance lithium-ion batteries, may be misleading, a new report by CSIRO states.

Monday, November 15, 2021 - 12:45:17

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Mining News Pro - ING Economics published a new report in which its experts predict what the ongoing energy transition might bring for five key metals – copper, aluminum, nickel, cobalt, and lithium.

Monday, October 18, 2021 - 11:56:19

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KoBold Metals, a start-up backed by a coalition of billionaires including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, has partnered with Britain’s Bluejay Mining (LON: JAY) to explore for critical materials used in electric vehicles (EVs) in Greenland.

دوشنبه 18 مرداد 1400 - 21:34:16

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Mining News Pro - The Northern Territory Government has partnered with the Future Battery Industries Cooperative Research Centre (FBICRC) to advance its foothold on the battery supply chain, including the establishment of new mining projects.

Wednesday, August 4, 2021 - 17:22:31

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Mining News Pro - Precious metals miner Sibanye-Stillwater has taken the next step in expanding its footprint in the battery metals sector by entering into an exclusive put option agreement with French mining group Eramet to acquire the Sandouville nickel hydrometallurgical processing facility, in France, for €65-million.

Friday, July 30, 2021 - 13:37:28

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Mining News Pro - 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 in energy transition.

Saturday, June 19, 2021 - 14:09:33

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Mining News Pro - Volkswagen is in talks with suppliers to secure direct access to raw materials for electric vehicle (EV) batteries via partnerships, one of its board members told Reuters on Tuesday.

Wednesday, June 16, 2021 - 14:06:57

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Mining News Pro - The United States government should invest in nickel refining capacity in coordination with its allies, according to the Biden Administration’s 100-day review of critical supply chains.

Tuesday, June 15, 2021 - 14:43:59

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Mining News Pro - Mineral developer Canadian Manganese Company (CMC) on Friday announced an agreement with Maximos Metals as part of its vision to create a new technology metals company

Monday, March 29, 2021 - 3:37:03 PM

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