Global mining and metals executives still view environment, social and governance (ESG) as the top risk facing their business over the next 12 months, but access to capital has now also become a major worry, […]
Geologists believe they’ve found the world’s largest lithium deposit at the McDermitt caldera, a massive depression formed by Yellowstone millions of years ago. Though work is still underway to confirm the mineral volumes within, up […]
Dive Brief: A cumulative $12 trillion will be spent on clean energy in North America by 2050, but neither the U.S. or Canada are on track to meet their 2050 net zero emissions targets, says […]
Stellantis has invested over $100 million to support the development of Controlled Thermal Resources Holdings’ (CTR) Hell’s Kitchen project in Imperial County, California, a geothermal lithium project with a total resource capacity to produce up […]
Alberta got out of the starting gates in the global critical minerals race Thursday with the opening of the province’s first lithium extraction pilot project. At his company’s site just east of the town of Olds in […]
A deposit of lithium recently discovered along the Nevada-Oregon border may be among the world’s largest, having potentially huge implications for the transition to electric vehicles. Volcanologists and geologists from Lithium Americas Corporation, GNS Science, and […]
It’s an all-too-familiar statement: in a zero-carbon world, certain chemical elements will be as important as oil and gas are to a fossil-fuel-powered world. These include the nickel, lithium and cobalt used in batteries, as […]
Demand for lithium-ion batteries is unprecedented – but is mining the chemical harmful to the environment? Lithium extraction fields in South America have been captured by an aerial photographer in stunning high definition. But while […]
Even with low transition 2.4 ̊ C scenario, minerals and metals needed for lower-carbon technologies face shortages by 2030, consultancy calculates The world is heading for a turbulent period of energy transition where constraints on […]
The Increasing Cost of Lithium Lithium is a metal that has become increasingly important in recent years due to its use in rechargeable batteries for a wide range of applications, including electric vehicles and consumer […]
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