MOSS LANDING, Calif. — A fire erupted Thursday afternoon at the Moss Landing Power Plant’s 300-megawatt Phase I energy storage facility, prompting evacuations and air quality warnings for nearby communities,…
Lithium Battery Cell Causes Fire in Empty Apartment on Success Lane TOMS RIVER, NJ – A small fire erupted in the living room of an unoccupied apartment at 411 Success…
(Reuters) – Albemarle, the world’s largest lithium producer, posted a better-than-expected adjusted quarterly profit on Wednesday as aggressive cost cuts helped offset plunging prices for the metal used to make…
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chile’s SQM, the world’s second-largest lithium producer, said it has suspended operations at the Atacama salt flat in Chile due to road blockades. “Since we do not…
(Reuters) – Chinese electric car-maker BYD has held talks with Brazil’s Sigma Lithium over a possible supply agreement, joint venture or acquisition, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. BYD met…
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Protesters agreed to end demonstrations that had blocked access to the Atacama salt flat in Chile, the world’s largest lithium deposit, with the promise of a visit…
By Polina Devitt and Siyi Liu LONDON/BEIJING (Reuters) – A surge in hedging activity by the lithium industry and traders after the recent price slump has benefited CME Group which…
By Melanie Burton MELBOURNE (Reuters) -Chile’s SQM has teamed up with Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, to make a sweetened A$1.7 billion ($1.14 billion) bid for Australian lithium developer Azure…
By Daina Beth Solomon and Fabian Cambero SANTIAGO (Reuters) – The head of one of Chile’s top mining associations on Tuesday urged the government to speed up efforts to expand…
(Reuters) – Stardust Power, a lithium refiner supplying the electric-vehicle industry, on Tuesday agreed to go public in the U.S. through a merger with a blank-check company in a deal…
By Ernest Scheyder LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Western lithium and graphite miners have started charging the electric vehicle (EV) supply chain higher prices for their material, meeting demand for environmentally-friendly…
By Melanie Burton MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australian mining moguls who have gatecrashed the country’s recent international lithium deals have pushed bankers into trying fresh measures to fend off interlopers unwilling…
By Ernest Scheyder LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil has yet to decide which lithium filtration technology it will deploy as part of its aggressive plans to become one of…
By Ernest Scheyder and Melanie Burton (Reuters) – The world’s largest lithium producers say they remain bullish on long-term demand for the battery material in the midst of recent price…
(Reuters) – Albemarle, the world’s largest producer of lithium, posted a 66% drop in quarterly profit on Wednesday and cut its annual forecast, citing slipping prices for the electric vehicle…
By Arunima Kumar (Reuters) – Albemarle Corp, the world’s largest producer of lithium, is expected to report lower quarterly profit as prices of the silvery-white metal came under pressure due…
TRENTON, NJ – With the onslaught of electric vehicles hitting the highways across New Jersey, lawmakers say local firefighters and EMTs are not undertrained when it comes to responding to…
By Fabio Teixeira RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Sigma Lithium on Friday said its Chief Operating Officer Brian Talbot left the company at the end of last month, confirming a…
By Fabio Teixeira RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Sigma Lithium on Friday challenged a Reuters report that a Brazilian court had imposed an “injunction” on its ability to sell or…
(Reuters) – Codelco will undertake due diligence on Australia’s Lithium Power International, the Chilean copper miner said on Thursday, but added that there is no certainty the discussions will lead…
By Ernest Scheyder PITTSBURGH (Reuters) – The mining industry is working to boost freshwater recycling while also developing direct lithium extraction (DLE) technologies as it races to reinvent how the…
(Reuters) -Albemarle, the world’s largest lithium producer, aims to close its buyout of junior Australian rival Liontown Resources by the middle of 2024, its chief executive said on Tuesday. Albemarle…
(Reuters) – Piedmont Lithium said on Tuesday it has received a partial prepayment of $31.6 million for the sale of 15,000 dry metric tonnes (dmt) of lithium concentrate under its…
By Ernest Scheyder (Reuters) – Automaker Stellantis said it would invest more than $100 million in California’s Controlled Thermal Resources, its latest bet on the direct lithium extraction (DLE) sector…
BEIJING (Reuters) – Two lithium mine auctions in China’s southwestern Sichuan province that began this week have received nearly 7,000 bids, with prices hundreds of times higher than starting levels…