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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Australia’s biggest lithium mine has become the latest battery-metals venture to feel the pain from faltering demand growth, with output set to be trimmed as prices sink.

Tuesday, January 30, 2024 - 21:26:55

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Australia’s biggest lithium mine has become the latest battery-metals venture to feel the pain from faltering demand growth, with output set to be trimmed as prices sink.

Monday, January 29, 2024 - 21:42:11

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Mining News Pro - Some 200 million Indonesians will vote for a new leader next month. The three campaigns still in the running have all backed the government’s policy on so-called downstreaming. But the Morowali disaster has thrown up criticisms of the price paid.

Friday, January 5, 2024 - 22:47:46

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Mining News Pro - Lithium extended an almost monthlong run of declines, taking its drop this year to 75%, with expectations the rout in the electric-vehicle battery metal is far from over.

Friday, November 24, 2023 - 22:00:45

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Mining News Pro - Lithium extended an almost monthlong run of declines, taking its drop this year to 75%, with expectations the rout in the electric-vehicle battery metal is far from over.

Thursday, November 23, 2023 - 22:28:31

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Mining News Pro - Namibia’s ambitions to become a manufacturing hub for battery metals key to the global transition to clean energy will require huge investments in infrastructure to support processing facilities, mining executives said on Wednesday.

Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 15:05:47

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Mining News Pro - Chinese battery metals producer CNGR Advanced Material Co. is weighing an initial public offering of Indonesian assets as soon as the end of 2024, according to people familiar with the matter.

Saturday, September 16, 2023 - 22:33:25

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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 - The turmoil that rocked financial markets this week has done little to shake the optimism around global mining, if the signs of exuberance on display at one of the industry’s biggest gatherings in years are to be believed.

Thursday, June 16, 2022 - 14:25:33

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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 - Nearly two years after Tesla outlined a plan to dig for lithium, its chief Elon Musk signaled that the electric car giant might start doing so, due to skyrocketing cost of the metal key to battery technology.

Monday, April 11, 2022 - 13:37:56

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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 - Glencore Plc agreed to an offtake deal with Missouri Cobalt LLC, giving the world’s biggest commodity trader more exposure to the crucial battery ingredient.

Thursday, February 10, 2022 - 12:46:06

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Mining News Pro - Lithium prices are continuing their breakneck ascent in China, with surging electric-vehicle sales underpinning a fivefold gain over the past year.

Tuesday, January 25, 2022 - 13:27:02

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