The European Union’s much-anticipated Critical Raw Materials Act, announced on Thursday March 16 by European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, has set out new lists of the raw materials now formally designated as strategic and critical

Stocks of base metals in Shanghai bonded warehouses showed mixed fortunes in March, Fastmarkets has learned

Chile intends to nationalize its lithium resources, the country’s president, Gabriel Boric, said in a televised address to the country on Friday April 21

Tesla expects tax credits from the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to be worth $150-250 million per quarter this year to the automaker and increase through the year as its car volumes grow, according to the company’s chief financial officer

Fastmarkets proposes to launch a cobalt mixed hydroxide precipitate payable indicator, % cobalt metal standard grade in-whs Rotterdam, CIF China, Japan, and South Korea and cobalt mixed hydroxide precipitate, outright price, CIF China, Japan, and South Korea, $/tonne.

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Production and sales of automobiles in China continued to fall in November from the previous month and from last year, buckling under pressure from Covid-19 but demand for electric vehicles (EVs) withstands pressure