The steep drop in global spot lithium prices over the past few months has helped to drive record-high volumes of trade on the year-old lithium hydroxide contract on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), Fastmarkets heard on Wednesday April 12

Tirupati has added the Suni Resources graphite project in Mozambique to its existing graphite flake and downstream businesses in Mozambique and India, the UK-based company said on Monday April 3

The prices for standard-grade cobalt metal in China and Europe narrowed on Wednesday April 5, sparked by weaker market sentiment resulting from a fall in cobalt intermediate prices in Asia

Fastmarkets proposes to launch weekly price assessments for black mass payable indicators, delivered South Korea, to provide insight to Asia’s burgeoning battery recycling sector.

Market participants in the cobalt supply chain continue to face logistical hurdles when looking to ship out material from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to the port of Durban in South Africa

The expected explosive growth in the use of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) means that the recycling of battery raw materials will become increasingly important both economically and environmentally, but development of the anode side of the battery continues to lag behind the cathode

GEM, China’s battery material producer, has signed a memorandum of understanding with SK on and ECOPRO Materials to establish a joint venture (JV) precursor plant in South Korea

Junior miner Core Lithium has announced that it produced the first commercial lot of spodumene concentrate during the first quarter of 2023

The London Metal Exchange has announced a two-year plan to 'strengthen and enhance' its markets following the 2022 nickel saga

Fastmarkets experts share lithium forecasts, data and interactive price charts to demonstrate the ever-changing battery materials landscape and make some key predictions for the future of the lithium market