Minerals

Nuclear Fuel

Agreements, Declarations Mark Macron Visits to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan

France and Kazakhstan have pledged cooperation on minerals and the nuclear fuel cycle, while in Uzbekistan there was agreement to raise the level of bilateral r…

Coal Trade

Indonesia Excludes Off-Grid Coal From $21.5 Billion Climate Deal

An excavator loads coal onto a dump truck at Cirebon Port in West Java, Indonesia, on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. Trade has been a bright spot for Indonesia, which…

Oil & Gas Trade

Germany's Scholz Says His Country Willing to Invest in Nigerian Gas, Minerals

Germany’s Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, and Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinubu, meeting in Abuja on Oct. 29, 2023. (Image by the Presidency Nigeria, Twitte…

Electric Vehicle Battery

Tesla Urges Australia to Give Tax Credits for Battery Supply Chain Investment

Tesla’s Model 3 being brought into an Australian mall. (Image by Tesla, Instagram).Electric-vehicle giant Tesla Inc. says Australia should offer tax incen…

Energy Storage System

Albemarle Confirms Non-binding Agreement to Acquire Liontown at Us$4.32b

Albemarle Corporation confirmed that it will be working toward the execution of a binding agreement to acquire Australia-based battery minerals company Liontown…

Battery

New Zinc-Air Battery Shows High Power Density, Ultra-Long Stability

Zinc. (Reference image by Konstantinos Kourtidis, Imaggeo.)Researchers at Australia’s Edith Cowan University have redesigned zinc-air batteries by using a…

Solar Technology

Indian State Jharkhand Releases O&M Tenders for 212 Solar Minigrids

Located in eastern India, the state of Jharkhand is perhaps best known for its stunning waterfalls and for being a rich source of minerals. Uranium, granite, go…

Energy Storage Project

ICL Breaks Ground on $400M Lfp Battery Materials Manufacturing Plant in St. Louis

ICL, a global specialty minerals company, celebrated the groundbreaking of its battery materials manufacturing plant in St. Louis, which is expected to be the f…

Geothermal Power Plant

Six Geothermal Exploration Permits Granted in Western Australia

Esperance, West Australia (source: flickr/ Don Pugh Perth Western Australia, creative commons)Six geothermal permits have been awarded by the West Australian De…

Microgrid

Arafura Tapping APA to Develop Gas-Fired Cogeneration to Power Rare Earth Mining in Australia

Australian-based minerals exploration firm Arafura, which has vowed to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, is also proposing to contract for a gas-…

Energy Storage Project

Finnish Minerals Group and Beijing Easpring to Form JV Company to Advance €774M Cam Plant Project

In November 2021, Finnish Minerals Group announced that it was negotiating with China-based Beijing Easpring Material Technology on the possibility to establish…

Coal Mine

DOE to Award $32M for Feed Studies for Production of Rare Earths and Critical Minerals and Materials From Coal

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $32 million for Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) studies for two different sizes (intermediate-scale and demo…

Carbon Emissions

Climate Change: China Ranks Third Behind Australia, Canada for Readiness to Boost Output of Metals Critical for Clean Energy Transition

Construction of the world’s first 16-megawatt offshore wind turbine in Fuzhou, southeast China’s Fujian Province. Photo: XinhuaChina scored 65 out o…

Geothermal Power Project

Energysource Minerals and Ford Sign Offtake Agreement for Geothermal Lithium

California-based EnergySource Minerals has signed a supply contract with the Ford Motors Company for sustainably produced lithium extracted from geothermal brin…

Solar Panel

New Design Strategies to Improve the Stability and Efficiency of Bifacial Perovskite Solar Cells

Solar cells based on perovskites, calcium titanium oxide minerals or compounds with similar structures, are among the most promising emerging energy solutions. …