The most important mineral in today's electric car batteries is lithium. China completely dominates the market, with no extraction taking place in ...

North and South Kivu, along with Katanga further to the south, are home to vast amounts of critical minerals, including gold, diamonds, coltan, cobalt and the 17 so-called rare earth minerals needed ...

The automotive industry is currently navigating significant supply chain disruptions due to rare earth shortages, tariffs, and volatile metal prices, forcing automakers to innovate, diversify their ...

In an April interview with Automotive News that recently went viral, Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda said that nine million ...

Battery start-ups and larger labs scrutinize materials in every part of electric vehicle systems, especially anodes ...

The study warns that even with a potential tenfold increase in domestic lithium production across these regions by 2030, it ...

Europe, the US and China will be unable to extract enough lithium domestically to meet their demands for electric vehicle (EV ...

Adam Vengosh Weinthal (left) and Gordon Williams collect surface brines from the salt crust of the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia.

Perth-based EV Resources (EVR) has finalised its acquisition of a 70% interest in the Los Lirios antimony mine in Mexico. The company said on Thursday that it had met all conditions precedent under a ...

In a study published in Cell Reports Sustainability, researchers conducted the most comprehensive analysis to date on lithium ...

Researchers from East China Normal University in Shanghai and Sweden’s Lund University described the shortage as a ‘looming ...

BHP taps electric equipment experts XCMG to clean up its global mining operations with zero emissions and autonomous mine trucks.