me-metals: Two Chinese manufacturers have taken over a Nigerian company that raised eyebrows in 2023 when it started building a lithium refinery in the country using a name that was very similar to one of the biggest and best-known Chinese producers.
News ID: 11757 Publish Date : 2025/02/14
me-metals: China’s Ganfeng Lithium has begun producing lithium at its Mariana project in northern Argentina, it said on Wednesday, kicking off one of several of its new lithium projects under way in the South American country.
News ID: 11754 Publish Date : 2025/02/14
me-metals: Exploration companies across Canada are hunting for lithium where it occurs in both hard rock and brines, located down old oil wells. But while prices of the critical mineral collapsed after their high of about $70,000 per tonne in late 2022 and currently remain low around $10,600 per tonne, exploration continues apace in Canada.
News ID: 11742 Publish Date : 2025/02/09
me-metals: Chile has wrapped up the initial phase of its efforts to award special lithium operation contracts (Ceols) to private companies, drawing applications from seven firms and consortiums.
News ID: 11738 Publish Date : 2025/02/06
me-metals: Image: Kobold Metals
KoBold Metals, backed by a coalition of billionaires including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, is expanding its search for lithium and nickel to Namibia.
News ID: 11731 Publish Date : 2025/02/05
me-metals: Stardust Power (NASDAQ: SDST) will supply Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation with at least 20,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate a year when its refinery in Oklahoma enters production, the US lithium developer said in a filing.
News ID: 11728 Publish Date : 2025/02/04
me-metals: India has scrapped customs duty on waste and scrap of a dozen critical minerals, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said during her annual budget presentation on Saturday.
News ID: 11723 Publish Date : 2025/02/02
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: Chile’s Codelco and Saudi Arabia are engaged in early-stage discussions about potential joint investments in the copper sector, the state-owned miner’s chairman Maximo Pacheco said on Friday.
News ID: 11670 Publish Date : 2025/01/18
me-metals: Saudi Arabia’s Manara Minerals is looking for critical minerals projects in Zambia to invest in, the southern African country’s mines minister Paul Kabuswe told Reuters on Thursday.
News ID: 11669 Publish Date : 2025/01/17
me-metals: Chinese copper and gold producer Zijin Mining Group has offered fellow Chinese miner Zangge Mining to buy a nearly 25% stake in the company for 13.7 billion yuan ($1.87 billion)
News ID: 11666 Publish Date : 2025/01/17
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: Chinese copper and gold producer Zijin Mining Group revealed on Friday it is in talks with Zangge Mining’s top two shareholders to buy a controlling stake in the lithium and potash miner.
News ID: 11645 Publish Date : 2025/01/11
me-metals: China’s lithium reserves have risen from 6% to 16.5% of the global total, making it the world’s second-largest holder of lithium reserves, state media reported on Wednesday.
News ID: 11640 Publish Date : 2025/01/09
me-metals: China plans to tighten export restrictions on certain technology used to make battery components and the processing of two crucial metals amid rising trade tensions globally.
News ID: 11621 Publish Date : 2025/01/03
me-metals: Gold is heading for its biggest gain in 14 years, with a 27% advance fueled by US monetary easing, sustained geopolitical risks and a wave of purchases by central banks.
News ID: 11615 Publish Date : 2025/01/01
me-metals: Eramet has delivered first production of lithium carbonate from its newly commissioned Centenario plant located in Argentina’s Salta province, making it the first European company to do so at an industrial scale.
News ID: 11605 Publish Date : 2024/12/28
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: Export Development Canada (EDC) on Tuesday provided up to C$100 million ($70m) in financing to develop the Seymour Lake lithium project in Ontario.
News ID: 11596 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