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    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      Batteries
      Northvolt in new sodium-ion battery breakthrough

      Swedish start-up has developed an energy storage technology with no critical minerals including lithium which could minimise reliance on China

      People work on Northvolt sodium-ion cells
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      28 min
      Inside the global race for lithium batteries | FT Film

      Lithium is the 'new oil' of the clean energy era, crucial to the production of batteries for electric vehicles

      FT Moral Money: The Lithium Mining Race
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      Energy sector
      UK geothermal developer seeks £600mn to expand into lithium in Cornwall

      GEL joins race to cash in on region’s mining revival

    • Monday, 13 November, 2023
      ExxonMobil
      Exxon to begin producing lithium to feed surging battery demand

      Oil producer has acquired rights to 120,000 acres of land in Arkansas as part of big strategic pivot

      A VW electric SUV
    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      Gina Rinehart takes second strategic stake in Australian lithium sector

      Billionaire acquires 18% of Azure Minerals after Chile’s SQM announces planned buyout

      A geologist holds a rock containing spodumene, a lithium raw material
    • Monday, 16 October, 2023
      LexHancock Prospecting Pty Ltd
      Gina Rinehart/Liontown: dabble trouble as Albemarle quits bid

      Hancock Prospecting has little but capital to offer, when an understanding of processing and refining is required

      Gina Rinehart
    • Monday, 16 October, 2023
      Albemarle Corp
      Albemarle abandons Australian lithium deal after Gina Rinehart builds stake

      US company has walked away from a $4.2bn takeover of Liontown citing ‘growing complexities’

      Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart
    • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
      Hancock Prospecting Pty Ltd
      Australia’s richest person raises stake in lithium producer, threatening $4.3bn takeover

      Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting is muscling in on Albemarle’s mine proposal

      Gina Rinehart smiles in a portrait picture
    • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
      Lex
      China lithium: falling prices do not mean falling margins Premium content

      Long-term demand for electric vehicles and the batteries that power them should deter panic selling

      A lithium battery factory in Yichang, China
    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      Mining
      Glencore to expand DRC exposure as it pushes into lithium

      The deal means the trading giant will be able to choose which clients receive the vital metal

      The sun sets on one of the open pit copper mines at Mutanda Mining in DRC
    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      LexAlbemarle Corp
      Albemarle/Liontown: US lithium producer willing to pay up down under Premium content

      If the chemical group’s bid for the Australian company goes ahead, it will be one of the biggest lithium mining deals to date

      Aerial view of pool of brine containing lithium carbonate
    • Monday, 14 August, 2023
      OutlookGeorge Parker
      Mining Cornwall’s past with lithium as its future

      Where Poldark strode moodily and legends swirl, new investment in EV battery ingredient gives hope of revival

      Ross Poldark — played by Aidan Turner in the  eponymous BBC series — galloping along the Cornish cliffs
    • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
      Cornish Lithium secures investment from UK Infrastructure Bank

      Move boosts Britain’s hopes of creating domestic mining industry for metal vital in electric car transition

      A mining rig in Cornwall
    • Friday, 14 July, 2023
      News in-depthIndustrial metals
      Can Cornwall get a slice of the lithium revolution?

      Developers battle to fund mining projects aiming to support Britain’s EV supply chain

    • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
      French miner Imerys to help develop UK’s largest lithium deposit

      Joint venture with British Lithium aims to reduce dependence on imports of crucial battery metal

      Lithium mine in Cornwall
    • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
      Chinese business & finance
      China’s $7tn energy overhaul sparks battery ‘gold rush’

      Companies including sesame-dessert maker pivot to lithium batteries in rare bright spot for Chinese economy

      Workers lay cables at an electricity storage facility under construction in north-west China’s Gansu province
    • Monday, 26 June, 2023
      UK lithium group warns it could go bust without £10mn cash injection

      Cornish Lithium is one of the few British groups aiming to produce metal vital for electric car battery production

    • Sunday, 25 June, 2023
      News in-depth
      Oil and gas majors step up efforts to diversify into lithium

      Groups pin hopes on technological breakthrough to produce metal critical for electric car transition

      Aerial view of Silver Peak lithium mine in Nevada
    • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
      Saudi Arabia expands lithium processing to supply BMW

      Second facility planned as EV battery supply chains begin to develop outside China

      BMW’s iX electric sport utility vehicles
    • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
      Boost for Europe’s EV makers after Portuguese lithium mine given environmental nod

      Savannah’s Barroso mine seen as a test of Europe’s ability to secure regional supplies of vital battery material

      A worker holds lithium at a processing plant
    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      Ford Motor Co
      Ford strikes lithium deals in bid to secure EV battery supplies

      Carmaker seeks to reduce $7bn cost gap with rivals by simplifying ranges and supply chains

    • Wednesday, 10 May, 2023
      Lex
      Allkem/Livent: lithium deal appears underpowered for smaller partner Premium content

      Two companies are combining in an all-stock merger worth $10.6bn

      Lithium producer Livent Corp’s processing plant is seen in North Carolina
    • Wednesday, 10 May, 2023
      Australian lithium producer Allkem strikes merger deal with US rival Livent

      Key battery component lithium is pivotal as car industry switches to electric

      A Livent processing plant in North Carolina
    • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
      Lithium’s shale oil moment

      Brine it on (sorry)

    • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
      News in-depth
      Chile’s move to control lithium alarms industry

      Australia, Argentina and African countries set to benefit as Santiago moves ‘urgently’ to take stake in key projects

      View of pools processing lithium at the SQM plant in Antofagasta
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