April 6, 2021

Greenpeace stages Pacific Ocean protest against deep-sea mining

Last week BMW, Volvo Group, Samsung SDI and Google signed on to a World Wildlife Fund call for a moratorium on the practice.

April 1, 2021

DeepGreen hits backs at firms opposing seafloor mining

Supporting a deep-sea mining moratorium is backing the environmental and social ills that come from land extraction, the company says.

March 30, 2021

Eramet board backs CEO for new term after shareholder tussle

Eramet's board unanimously agreed to propose that Christel Bories be renewed for a second four-year term.

March 25, 2021

Home: Volkswagen powers up for the EV revolution

Its roadmap has major implications for battery metals such as lithium, cobalt, nickel and manganese.

March 23, 2021

Top 14 UBS battery metals forecasts after VW teardown

UBS says ID.3 is the “most significant bet on EVs made by any legacy carmaker to date” prompting a super bullish upgrade to demand for lithium, nickel, cobalt, rare earth…

March 18, 2021

US looks to Canada for minerals to build electric vehicles

The US government is working to help American miners and battery makers expand into Canada, part of a strategy to boost regional production of minerals used to make electric vehicles…

March 17, 2021

RANKED: World’s top 10 nickel projects – 2021

No. 1 is a deep sea polymetallic project with a 75,000 square kilometre exploration tenement.

March 16, 2021

EV Metal Index doubles year-on-year as lithium, cobalt prices rally

Despite a big drop from December’s blowout high, January 2021 still ranks as the fourth best month for the MINING.COM EV Metal Index thanks to rising cobalt, nickel and lithium…

March 15, 2021

VW plans to be battery juggernaut in $29 billion answer to Tesla

Company is stepping up its game to become the world’s biggest electric-car maker with a plan to build six battery factories in Europe.

March 11, 2021

Cobalt, nickel free electric car batteries are a runaway success

Few months in, LFP Model 3 already commands 5% of global EV market, counts for 21% of Tesla battery capacity hitting roads–even before key patent expiry next year.