November 5, 2020

Talga receives $1.2m from UK to conduct anode refinery study

A potential UK refinery would produce Talga’s anode product using natural flake graphite from the company’s Vittangi operation in northern Sweden.

November 3, 2020

Québec unveils $68m plan to promote critical and strategic minerals sector growth

The province established a list of 22 minerals considered critical and strategic, and actions to encourage the expansion of CSM value chains.

November 3, 2020

Nouveau Monde to participate in Quebec truck electrification initiative

With plans for 12 electric trucks at company’s Matawinie project, the miner aims to be the first all-electric open pit operation in the world.

October 27, 2020

Nouveau Monde advances plans to make high-purity graphite products, shares up

The company has developed a proprietary thermochemical purification technology that it says is very effective at purifying larger particle sizes and will allow it to produce high-purity, carbon-neutral graphite flakes.

October 25, 2020

Graphene-infused copper wire may be key for more efficient EVs

General Motors and researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are behind this finding.

October 21, 2020

Cobalt, nickel price rally lifts EV Metal Index to 2020 high

Cobalt prices are up 30% this year and nickel has rebounded from its pandemic lows, powering the MINING.COM EV Metal Index to $1.2 billion so far this year.

October 19, 2020

Zen, German Aerospace to develop graphene-enhanced aerogels for batteries

Graphene-enhanced aerogels have the potential to be low-cost, low-weight, high-performance composite materials for energy storage applications.

October 7, 2020

Nouveau Monde, Forge Nano partner to optimize graphite products for EVs

Nouveau wants to use Forge’s Atomic Laser Disposition-coating technologies on spherical graphite.

September 29, 2020

Zen closer to producing virucidal ink from graphene oxide

Zen’s partner, the University of Guelph, filed a patent for the electrochemical exfoliation process that allows for the production of graphene oxide.

September 24, 2020

Mines are the biggest holes in Tesla’s $25,000 car plans

“We sorta take a chunk of dirt out of the ground, remove the lithium, and put the chunk of dirt back where it was. It will not look, like, terrible.…