me-metals: A landslide has hit a mine waste zone at a nickel processing hub managed by PT Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park (IMIP) on the island of Sulawesi, IMIP’s spokesperson Dedy Kurniawan said on Thursday, killing one worker and halting operations.
News ID: 13174 Publish Date : 2026/02/21
me-metals: Australian hard rock lithium producers are gearing up to boost supply as spodumene prices have more than tripled since early December.
News ID: 13070 Publish Date : 2026/02/01
me-metals: Australia’s Liontown said on Tuesday it has signed an offtake deal to supply 150,000 wet metric tons of spodumene concentrate in 2027-2028 from its Kathleen Valley project to Chinese lithium chemicals maker Canmax Technologies.
News ID: 12896 Publish Date : 2025/12/14
me-metals: The United States is entering a new era of resource security. With fresh agreements signed with Australia and Malaysia, and another on the horizon with Japan, the country is taking decisive steps to secure access to the critical minerals that power everything from electric vehicles (EVs) and renewable energy systems to advanced defense technologies.
News ID: 12652 Publish Date : 2025/11/03
me-metals: Stanton, Tennessee – population 450 – welcomed a massive new neighbor a few years ago: a Ford electric-truck factory and a joint-venture battery plant slated to employ 6,000 workers.
News ID: 12556 Publish Date : 2025/10/15
me-metals: Aclara Resources (TSX: ARA) has formed a strategic collaboration with Stanford University to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence (AI) innovations aimed at securing a sustainable supply chain for heavy rare earth elements (HREE).
News ID: 12190 Publish Date : 2025/07/21
me-metals: Like lithium and cobalt, nickel prices have been on a wild ride since forecasts of electric vehicle demand for battery materials first entered the stratosphere and duly came back to earth.
News ID: 12146 Publish Date : 2025/07/09
me-metals: New tariffs are changing how electric vehicles (EVs) get built in the US, and fast.
News ID: 12000 Publish Date : 2025/05/18
me-metals: Indonesia’s Danantara and French miner Eramet SA are in talks to form a partnership that would invest in a nickel plant in the Southeast Asian nation, people familiar with the matter said, in what could be the state investment fund’s first major transaction.
News ID: 11960 Publish Date : 2025/05/06
me-metals: Lynas Rare Earths Ltd. (ASX: LYC), backed by Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart, has been the most resilient stock on the country’s index since the market turmoil started last week.Since US President Donald Trump launched the so-called reciprocal tariffs, the Australian miner has been the only stock on the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index to avoid decline. After the announcement it rallied every day except for Tuesday, when it remained flat.
News ID: 11874 Publish Date : 2025/04/14
me-metals: Chinese firms control about 75% of Indonesia’s nickel refining capacity, raising concern over supply chain control and environmental risks, Washington-based global security nonprofit C4ADS has said in a report.
News ID: 11736 Publish Date : 2025/02/06
me-metals: The world’s second largest miner Rio Tinto (ASX, LON: RIO) plans to create a standalone lithium division after it closes its $6.7 billion acquisition of Arcadium Lithium (ASX: LTM)(NYSE: ALTM), according to an internal memo seen by Reuters.
News ID: 11673 Publish Date : 2025/01/18
me-metals: Lithium prices are expected to stabilize in 2025 after two years of steep declines as shuttered mines and robust electric vehicle sales in China soak up an oversupply, although the potential for mines to reopen may cap gains, analysts and traders said.
News ID: 11657 Publish Date : 2025/01/14
me-metals: Credit: Albemarle America has become unacceptably reliant on foreign competitors for critical materials and manufacturing processes. Post-Cold War assumptions about peace, trade, and eventual liberalizations led the US government and businesses to rely heavily on China – for manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and raw materials. Today, the foreign reliance that brought down costs by shipping domestic industrial capacity abroad has become one of America’s most acute weaknesses, particularly in the case of critical minerals. America uses minerals for a range of strategic military and commercial applications, some of which the US relies substantially or wholly on imports to provide. Among the fifty critical minerals that the Department of Energy identified in its 2023 DOE Critical Minerals List, lithium best represents both the threat of American foreign overreliance as well as an opportunity for the US to decrease its critical mineral vulnerability.
News ID: 11599 Publish Date : 2024/12/25
me-metals: Buyers and sellers of lithium are locked in annual supply talks for 2025 as producers push for better terms after another challenging year for the key battery material.
News ID: 11593 Publish Date : 2024/12/23
me-metals: Many lithium mines, led by Chinese operators, are maintaining production of the raw material needed for electric vehicle (EV) batteries, in defiance of prices weak enough to trigger mass output cuts – providing a boon for battery makers.
News ID: 11551 Publish Date : 2024/12/11
Tesla’s promise to slash battery costs by 50% has led the carmaker to dabble into a whole new field of making its own battery cells and, therefore, is looking into manufacturing cathodes and extracting associated raw materials.
News ID: 10331 Publish Date : 2021/08/31
Slowing electric vehicle (EV) demand in China and disruption during the Covid-19 pandemic will continue to hit the major Chinese lithium producers, including Tianqi Lithium and Ganfeng Lithium, into the second quarter.
News ID: 9167 Publish Date : 2020/04/16
On Tuesday, April 14, China’s State Grid announced to invest RMB 2.7 billion in total to construct charging piles. It said it plans to build 78,000 charging piles in 2020, which is 10 times more than the addition last year.
News ID: 9162 Publish Date : 2020/04/15
South Korea's government forecasts the country having more than 200,000 electric and hydrogen vehicles on its roads by the end of this year amid increased public incentives.
News ID: 8291 Publish Date : 2020/01/10
