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Researchers from the United States and Australia have discovered previously unrecognized structural lines 100 miles or more down in the Earth that appear to signal…
Plans to start mining the Moon as early as 2025 became more attractive this week after a US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) team…
The world is in transition between a lead-acid battery past, and a future in which lithium-ion batteries are poised to supplant lead-acid batteries and to…
Car sales are tanking the world over: Europe is likely to experience a 20–25% drop in overall sales, the US is running at an annualized…
The rally in the gold price gained fresh momentum on Tuesday as investors piled into physically-backed gold ETFs to secure hard assets amid expectations of…
India has taken an historic step towards ending the state monopoly on the mining and selling of coal by auctioning 41 mines in the country, a…
USA Rare Earth, the funding and development partner of the Round Top heavy rare earth project and Texas Mineral Resources announced Thursday that its rare…
BloombergNEF, the primary research service for Bloomberg, is forecasting an 18% drop in electric vehicle (EV) sales this year due to disruptions to battery metals…
Britain just passed a significant landmark — at midnight on Wednesday, it had gone two full months without using electricity from coal-fired power stations for…
A new report by Roskill states that lithium-ion battery demand is expected to increase more than ten-fold by 2029, reaching in excess of 1,800GWh capacity. …
A report published by market analyst Lux Research states that companies looking to decarbonize their energy trade routes have about 10 years to do so. According to…
While electric car sales were crashing in China, the world’s largest EV market by a country mile, customers were still busy kicking tires in Western…
Production of battery metals such as graphite, lithium and cobalt will have to increase by nearly 500% by 2050 to meet the growing demand for…
The back story on how China came to dominate the lithium-ion battery to electric vehicle (EV) supply chain by building capacity in metal refining, battery-grade…
Researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology have developed a high-capacity lithium-ion battery that is flexible enough to be stretched. Led by senior…
The executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Fatih Birol, said that the turmoil in the oil sector caused by the covid-19 pandemic gives…
A report by market analyst Roskill states that the slowdown in the Chinese EV market during H2-2019 and the covid-19 pandemic have had a significant…
Russia’s space agency Roscosmos has condemned US President Donald Trump’s order signed this week, which encourages citizens to mine the moon and other celestial bodies…
Global coal production is expected to grow only marginally in 2020, from 8.13 billion tonnes in 2019 to 8.17 billion tonnes in 2020, a growth…
The spreading coronavirus pandemic may too heavy of a burden for the already struggling coal miners in the United States, with three companies announcing operations…