The figure was reached after five new sites, including Antofagasta’s Antucoya mine and Capstone’s Mantos Blancos and Mantoverde, joined Copper Mark.

In a paper published in the journal Nature, the researchers explain that the new battery architecture uses aluminum and sulphur as its two electrode materials.

Rare earth minerals and other battery materials are shaping up to be very important on the geopolitical stage. As this piece at Quartz points out, China’s grip on the minerals that drive not only clean technologies, but other important things like medical imaging, came to a head for Japan in 2010. China was able to […]

The Australian firm plans to set up a major mining hub in the Kalahari Copper Belt.

The company said it will be constructing two facilities, in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

The PEA puts the gross revenues over 15 years of mining at $3.7 billion.

Apollo is one of eight porphyry-related targets the company has found within a 3-km by 4-km cluster, and is part of the Guayabales project.

The company estimates it will take three years to permit and build the graphite manufacturing facility and on average, the plant would produce about 49,615 tonnes of anode material per year.

“The recession fears are still there in the background,” said WisdomTree commodity strategist Nitesh Shah.

They aim to produce 40 GW-hours of batteries annually at the plant — enough for more than 700,000 EVs, based on the IEA’s estimate. 

Decision to build the project and associated port will open up a major new iron ore area in the Pilbara.

Researchers working at the Stawell gold mine want to figure out whether dark matter actually exists.