Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have been buying equity in miners to secure access to battery raw materials, but David Brocas, co-founder and managing partner of Voltaire Minerals Partners, contends that the offtake agreements may not be in the best interest of miners unless carefully structured

The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has opened an enforcement investigation into the London Metal Exchange’s “conduct, systems and controls” related to nickel futures trading

Chinese cobalt producer GEM has been allowed by local authorities to resume cobalt production at its plant in Jiangsu from February 25, the company said on Monday February 27

The local government of Yichun city in China’s Jiangxi province has begun a crackdown on illegal lithium mining in the city, it said on Friday February 24

Australian mining giant BHP has added to the growing industry pressure on the London Metal Exchange to reform its benchmark nickel price to make it more reflective of the physical market

Tirupati Graphite has commissioned a new 18,000 tonnes per year unit to bring its overall flake graphite production capacity to 30,000 tpy, the company has reported

Competition with Asia to bring the battery value chain to Europe intensifies as mining company Finnish Minerals Group and battery cell manufacturer Freyr Battery explore the possibility of producing LFP cathode material

US automotive manufacturer Ford’s announcement that it would invest $3.5 billion to build a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) plant in the US state of Michigan marks the chemistry’s adoption in a nickel cobalt manganese (NCM) dominated market

Junior miner Piedmont Lithium has agreed to provide South Korean cathode maker LG Chem with 200,000 tonnes of spodumene concentrate (SC6%) over a four-year period, it said on Thursday February 16

Financially settled contracts for metals have grown in popularity over the last 12 months, and this likely played a role in a change of ownership at Traxys