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

Battery materials firm Umicore has started the industrialization of its high lithium, manganese (HLM) cathode active material (CAM), it said, and was targeting commercial production and use in electric vehicles in 2026

The Geological Survey of India discovered a new lithium deposit containing 5.9 million tonnes of inferred lithium resources in the country’s Salal-Haimana area of the Reasi District of Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian government said on Thursday February 9

The European Raw Materials Alliance (ERMA) has given its official support to GreenRoc Mining’s Amitsoq graphite project in southern Greenland with the intention of improving the security of graphite supply for the EU, which has categorized it as a critical material

The nickel sulfate price rebounded for the first time in two months with new buying interest emerging after China’s 2023 Lunar New Year holiday