me-metals: Chile’s comptroller on Friday approved, with some guidelines, an agreement between state copper giant Codelco and local miner SQM to operate a joint lithium venture in the Atacama salt flat.
News ID: 12959 Publish Date : 2025/12/20
me-metals: Chilean Comptroller’s Office said on Friday that it will launch an “unprecedented” audit of the lithium agreement between state copper giant Codelco and local producer SQM.
News ID: 12956 Publish Date : 2025/12/20
me-metals: Global lithium carbonate prices have risen significantly in recent weeks due to increased uncertainty over supplies and an improved outlook for future demand, though they remain below last year’s average, Chilean state agency Cochilco said in a report on Wednesday.
News ID: 12939 Publish Date : 2025/12/19
me-metals: Australia’s Leo Lithium will sell its remaining assets and return at least A$330 million (about $220 million) to shareholders, with the terms of the capital return to be finalized in the coming weeks.
News ID: 12439 Publish Date : 2025/09/19
me-metals: Australia’s Global Lithium Resources (ASX: GL1) is seeking to postpone its upcoming annual shareholder meeting until March next year due to concerns over a potential breach of foreign ownership rules.
News ID: 11449 Publish Date : 2024/11/09
me-metals: Start-up Vulcan Energy will begin large-scale industrial production of lithium hydroxide in Germany in 2027, two years later than originally planned, the company said on Friday as it started operations at a demonstration plant.
News ID: 11445 Publish Date : 2024/11/09
me-metals: Albemarle, the world’s largest lithium producer, said on Thursday it lost more than $1 billion in the third quarter and that it would slash its capital budget amid a 71% drop in prices for the electric vehicle battery metal.
News ID: 11444 Publish Date : 2024/11/08
me-metals: US president-elect Donald Trump’s new administration should focus on speeding up the permitting process to ensure there is enough copper for the energy transition, said a Rio Tinto executive on Thursday, referring to its stalled Arizona mine.
News ID: 11443 Publish Date : 2024/11/08
me-metals: China’s industry ministry is proposing to step up domestic exploration of mineral resources under a plan to support the energy storage manufacturing industry.
News ID: 11436 Publish Date : 2024/11/07
me-metals: Environmental and Indigenous groups on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging the US Interior Department’s approval of ioneer’s Rhyolite Ridge lithium mine in Nevada, the first domestic source of the battery metal to be permitted by Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration.
News ID: 11424 Publish Date : 2024/11/02
me-metals: The US Department of Energy finalized a $2.26 billion loan for Lithium Americas on Monday to build Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine, one of Washington’s largest mining industry investments and part of a broader push to boost critical minerals production.
News ID: 11422 Publish Date : 2024/10/31
me-metals: The US Interior Department on Thursday gave final approval to ioneer’s Rhyolite Ridge lithium mine in Nevada, the first domestic source of the battery metal to be permitted by President Joe Biden’s administration and one that will become a key supplier to Ford and other electric vehicle manufacturers.
News ID: 11408 Publish Date : 2024/10/26
me-metals: Volt Lithium (TSXV: VLT) said on Wednesday it has successfully produced battery-grade lithium carbonate from its US field operations located in the Permian Basin in West Texas.
News ID: 11406 Publish Date : 2024/10/24
me-metals: Paris – Eramet has bought out Chinese partner Tsingshan in a lithium project in Argentina that is about to begin production, the French miner said on Thursday.
News ID: 11403 Publish Date : 2024/10/24
me-metals: Cornish Lithium has opened the UK’s first low-emission lithium hydroxide demonstration plant as part of its Trelavour hard rock project in Cornwall, England.
News ID: 11391 Publish Date : 2024/10/20
me-metals: Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) faces a crucial test this month in Serbia as leaders of a small town vote on whether to allow Europe’s largest lithium project, the $2.4 billion capex Jadar.
News ID: 11390 Publish Date : 2024/10/20
me-metals: General Motors is eyeing further North American investments in lithium and other critical minerals used to build electric vehicles after boosting its investment in a Nevada mine to nearly $1 billion earlier this week, an executive said on Thursday.
News ID: 11385 Publish Date : 2024/10/18
me-metals: Shares in Lithium Americas (TSX: LAC; NYSE: LAC) jumped by 20.2% on Wednesday after it announced a new $625 million joint venture agreement with General Motors for its Thacker Pass project in northern Nevada.
News ID: 11380 Publish Date : 2024/10/17
