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Explorex Resources scraps plans to buy battery metals project in Finland

The Canadian miner won’t be buying the Hautalampi cobalt, nickel, copper project in eastern Finland at this time due to financing issues.

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SQM just made it very difficult for Tianqi to access company secrets

The lithium miner, the world’s second largest producer of the white metal, has approved additional measures to protect corporate data considered confidential from China’a Tianqi, which recently bought almost a quarter of the Chilean company.

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World’s top maker of battery cells for EVs to open German plant in 2021

China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) plans to produce 60 gigawatt hours by the fifth year of its German plant operations.

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Groundbreaking! America’s new quest for mineral independence

What happens when a geologist and an author whose chief interest is California’s Silicon Valley get together to take a look at the United States’ dependence on foreign supplies of critical minerals?

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Cornish secures further $1.3 million to build lithium mine in the UK

The funds will enable the company to expand activities in south-west England and to drill exploratory boreholes to extract samples of lithium-bearing brines.

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