Graphite miner Syrah Resources has announced the first production of purified spherical graphite from its battery anode material (BAM) plant, in the US.
Syrah on Monday said that the first purified spherical graphite, produced from natural graphite so…
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Australia’s mineral endowment meant that it was well placed to take advantage of the energy revolution, the Office of the Chief Scientist’s Manager of Resource Economics David Thurtell told delegates at the International Mining and Resources conference…
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The share price of graphite hopeful Hexagon Resources climbed by more than 5% on Thursday as the company announced plans to venture into downstream rare earths processing in the US.
Hexagon has signed a binding investment agreement for an option over …
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A consortium, which includes ASX-listed Talga Resources, has gained funding from the UK government’s ISCF Faraday Battery Challenge initiative, which would see the development of Talga’s graphitic anode for solid state batteries.
Talga on Wednesday sa…
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Freyr, a startup planning to build one of Europe’s first battery gigafactories in Norway, has a bigger vision for the region: a “Nordic Battery Belt.”
The Norwegian company is still gathering approvals, technology licenses and funding for its initial,…
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Kazakh entrepreneur Kenes Rakishev said on Tuesday he had sold his stake in gold miner Petropavlovsk to Russian billionaire Roman Trotsenko and would invest the proceeds in a cobalt and nickel project he aims to list in Hong Kong.
Rakishev bought his …
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Australia’s Kibaran Resources Ltd said on Tuesday its proposed production facility at Kwinana, near Perth in Western Australia, would manufacture battery graphite worth A$72-million a year for export.
The company said an engineering study had found th…
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The United States faces stiff challenges as it moves to create its own electric vehicle supply chain, industry analysts say, with the extent of the country’s metal reserves largely unknown and only a few facilities to process minerals and produce batte…
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Booming demand for electric vehicles and insufficient investment in mines could result in a global shortage of minerals needed to manufacture rechargeable batteries in a few years’ time, a Tesla representative told US officials and mining executives in…
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The US push to challenge China’s dominance in the production and sale of electric vehicles has at least one weak link: Most of the raw materials needed to make the batteries are dug elsewhere.
Both Chinese and US-based companies have invested heavily …
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