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Beyond Lithium: Strategic Battle For Fluorspar And Other Essential Minerals In Global Energy Politics
Monday, July 8, 2024 - 10:54am | 1308WASHINGTON — While copper, lithium, nickel and cobalt often grab headlines when it comes to battery metals, there is an array of other minerals important to the energy transition away from fossil fuels. As the importance of manganese, graphite, silicon and fluorspar grows alongside demand for...
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South32's GEMCO Shutdown Sparks Manganese Price Rally: Market Faces Prolonged Supply Constraint
Thursday, June 13, 2024 - 10:57am | 561Manganese, a crucial component in steelmaking and battery production, has emerged as an outperforming metal in 2024, driven by soaring demand and significant supply disruptions. While year-to-date gold is up 18.7%, silver 21.6%, and tin surged a remarkable 28%, manganese rallied almost 33%, making...
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BHP's Spinoff South32 Eyes Anglo American's Manganese Assets
Thursday, May 23, 2024 - 2:35pm | 561South32 Ltd (OTCPK: SHTLF), the diversified mining company spun out of BHP Group Ltd (NYSE:BHP) in 2015, has expressed interest in acquiring Anglo American's (OTCQX:AAUKF) share of their jointly owned manganese assets. While BHP's acquisition efforts mainly focus on prized copper assets, Anglo...
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Tesla Co-Founder's Battery Recycling Company Ties Up With E-Waste Firm ERI
Friday, March 26, 2021 - 2:54am | 336Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) co-founder JB Straubel’s recycling startup Redwood Materials is partnering with North American electronic waste processing company ERI to recycle batteries and solar panels. What Happened: As part of the partnership, Nevada-based Redwood has made an undisclosed...
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Go BATTy For This New Battery ETF
Thursday, June 7, 2018 - 1:41pm | 502Investors looking to tap into expected demand for materials used to manufacture batteries for electric vehicles, among other high-tech products, have a new exchange traded fund to consider. The Amplify Advanced Battery Metals and Materials ETF (NYSE: BATT) debuted Wednesday. BATT provides exposure...