Rare Earth Race: How China And Russia Are Pushing France Back Into Mining
The government is launching a “major inventory of French mining resources”, to prepare for the relaunch of mining in France of the minerals needed for...
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Action on critical minerals is needed now
As tensions between China and its major trading partners escalate, Beijing has a powerful card to play — its near monopoly on the mining and...
Rio Tinto–backed firm InoBat selects location for battery gigafactory in Serbia
Slovakian startup InoBat has selected a location for its gigafactory for manufacturing and recycling batteries. The move follows earlier preliminary agreements signed with the Government...
Battery research projects to receive over €150m from European Union
The European Union’s research initiative, Horizon Europe, has announced €150m in funding for Battery 2030+ to facilitate sustainable battery research. The funding comes after McKinsey...
Teesport: Green light given for lithium refinery plant
A plant which will refine lithium – a material used in electric car batteries – is to be built on Teesside. Green Lithium, which it...
Boron One Reports Completion of Feasibility Study for 100% Owned Piskanja Boron Project
Boron One Holdings Inc, a company dedicated to the decarbonization of Planet Earth through the responsible utilization of its boron assets, reported that an independently...
Preliminary Roadmap for the development of the Graphite Anode Materials Plant in the GigaVaasa area
Beowulf, and its wholly owned Finnish subsidiary Grafintec Oy, provided an update on the development plans for the Graphite Anode Materials Plant (“GAMP”) in the...
EBRD funded Tara Resources lead zinc mine in Montenegro still opponed by local communities
Miners’ Day was greeted by uncertainty as to whether the Brskovo mine would be opened and what consequences it might have for people’s health and...
QX Resources’ nickel exposure in Sweden grows
QX Resources-backed Bayrock Resources has expanded the mineral lease area around its promising Vuostok nickel-copper project in Northern Sweden. In July, the Steve Promnitz-led lithium...
The east German town at the centre of the new ‘gold rush’ … for lithium
It has been called the new gold rush – a rush to catch up with China in producing and refining the materials needed in everything...
