Zircon unique properties essential for high-performance jet engine turbine blades
Dr Keven Harlow, executive director, Zircon Industry Association explains why the unique properties of Zircon are essential for the manufacture
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Titanium industry shows signs of recovery since the pandemic
Following the difficult period experienced in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the titanium industry is beginning to
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Exxaro sells Tronox stake for R4.8 billion
Pretoria – Exxaro Resources announced on Thursday the pricing of its upsized offering of 19,108,970 Tronox shares in an underwritten
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Sibanye-Stillwater secures entry into battery metals sector
Johannesburg – Sibanye-Stillwater has announced that it entered into an investment agreement with advanced lithium project, Keliber Oy. The Transaction
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Mick Davis establishes Vision Blue and buys graphite company
LONDON – Vision Blue Resources (VBR) announces that it has raised an initial US$60m and made its first investment of
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Rio Tinto to become first producer of high-quality scandium
SOREL-TRACY, Canada – Rio Tinto will become the first producer of high-quality scandium oxide in North America, with construction of
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Roskill: Rare earth industry is becoming more diversified
According to Roskill, the rare earth industry remained dominated by the Chinese market in 2020, representing over 70% of annual
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First Cobalt signs arrangements for refinery feedstock
TORONTO, ON – First Cobalt Corp. has announced long-term cobalt hydroxide feed arrangements with Glencore AG and IXM SA, a
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Rock Tech raises money to build lithium refinery
VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA – Rock Tech Lithium Inc. has announced the closing of its non-brokered private placement of 2,580,645 units
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AVZ Signs First Lithium Offtake Agreement with GFL International
AVZ Minerals Limited has secured a strategic, long-term offtake partner with GFL International Co., a subsidiary of China’s largest lithium
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Yahua to supply Tesla with battery-grade lithium hydroxide
The Chinese Sichuan Yahua Industrial Group has signed a contract with Tesla to supply battery-grade lithium hydroxide for the next
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Roskill: Tantalum market poised for recovery
According to Roskill, tantalum was somewhat protected from the worst effects of COVID-19 early on in 2020, with a supply
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New cobalt-free cathodes for lithium-ion batteries
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new type of cathodes with the potential to replace the costly
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Marginal recovery for lithium industry expected
Since 2018, the prolonged downward trend for lithium compound and mineral concentrate prices has caused a difficult and often painful
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Equinor, Panasonic and Hydro to start European battery business
OSLO, NORWAY – Energy company Equinor, technology company Panasonic, and industrial group Hydro have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to
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Everflow to manufacture vanadium redox flow batteries
FREUDENSTADT, GERMANY – Nusaned Investment and SCHMID Group have closed the JV transaction in Saudi Arabia focusing on manufacturing and
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Salzgitter plant: What happens during battery recycling?
First, the returns will be analysed. After that, there are two paths: either the battery is given a so-called “second
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AMY achieves 99.7% extraction of lithium-ion battery material
SURREY, B.C., CANADA – American Manganese Inc. (AMY) has reported that the RecycLiCo pilot plant leach stages achieved 99.7% extraction
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Global titanium industry is on long-term growth trend
According to Roskill, the global titanium metal industry is on a long-term growth trend, and the 2014-2019 period saw rising
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Five things the world will need for a low-carbon future
Take clean energy technologies like wind, solar and batteries: each of these needs large amounts of minerals and metals to
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High purity nickel-cobalt hydroxide recovery
American Manganese Inc. has reported on the successful recovery of high purity (99.98%) nickel-cobalt hydroxide from the NCA cathode scrap
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Primobius and InoBat to operate lithium-ion battery recycling facility
BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA – Lithium battery recycling process designed to generate low CO2 emissions and to deliver high purity chemicals back
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Lithium production either carbon-intensive or wasting water
Owing to its use in high tech applications such as Li-ion batteries, lithium will play a crucial role in aiding
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Sodium-ion battery to rival commercial lithium-ion models
The sodium-ion battery is a type of rechargeable battery analogous to the lithium-ion battery but using sodium ions as the
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Technology metals to outperform other commodities
Smartphones, wind turbines, and electric cars are becoming standard features of modern life and are closely linked to a low-carbon,
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TechMet gets investment to produce technology metals
DUBLIN/WASHINGTON DC – The US International Development Finance Corporation has made a $25 million investment into TechMet Ltd, a private
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AMY acquires precipitation reactor to advance recycled cathode material
American Manganese Inc. (AMY) has acquired a specialized cathode precipitation reactor from an Asian supplier of commercial cathode precursor manufacturing
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Lithium expected to be in deficit longer term
Lithium carbonate and hydroxide prices continued to exhibit a descendant trend throughout the most of 2019, with monthly average lithium
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Paladin continues restart of Langer Heinrich Uranium
Paladin Energy in its update for the quarter ended 30 September 2020 says the Company continued restart planning activities at
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Geologists unravel how rare earth elements form
A team of geologists has helped to solve an age-old mystery about how rare earth element (REE) deposits form underground
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