Australia, Carbon and Supplies

Woodside, 6 Japanese partners to conduct feasibility study on lower-emissions ammonia supply chain from Australia to Japan

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

signed a joint research agreement under which they will jointly conduct a feasibility study (Phase 2) on the establishment of a lower-emissions fuel ammonia supply chain from Australia to Japan. .; and Hokkaido Electric Power Co.

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Stellantis signs binding agreement with Element 25 for manganese sulphate supply for EV batteries; sourced in Australia, processed in US

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2023

Stellantis and Australia-based Element 25 signed a binding agreement for Element 25 to supply battery-grade, high-purity manganese sulphate monohydrate (HPMSM) to Stellantis for use in electric vehicle (EV) battery packs. Stellantis plans to become carbon net-zero by 2038, with a 50% reduction by 2030.

Australia

Australia Supplies Batteries Battery

Ammonia market to triple by 2050 with nearly all growth coming from low-carbon supply; shift to energy markets

Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2023

The global market for ammonia is poised to triple in the coming decades with nearly all of the growth coming from low-carbon ammonia, according to a new analysis by S&P Global Commodity Insights. The rapid growth in ammonia driven by low-carbon supplies will change the current market beyond recognition.

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Benchmark: hard-rock lithium can be 3x as carbon intensive as lithium from brine

Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2023

Lithium chemicals derived from hard rock sources such as spodumene can be more than three times as carbon-intensive as that from brine sources, according to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence’s (Benchmark Minerals’) Lithium ESG Report. The majority of spodumene is mined in Australia where it is processed into spodumene concentrate.

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Carbon Grid Lithium Ion Convert

Navigator CO2 to provide ~600k TPA of CO2 as a feedstock for ultra-low carbon Infinium eFuels

Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2023

Electrofuels provider Infinium and comprehensive carbon management company Navigator CO2 entered into a Memorandum of Understanding and long-term relationship for Navigator to deliver 600,000 tons per annum (TPA) of biogenic carbon dioxide from its Heartland Greenway system to a future Infinium facility for the production of electrofuels (eFuels).

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CO2 Carbon Fuel Alternative Cleaner

Study finds transporting food and ingredients generates 20% of carbon emissions in the global food system

Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2022

A study by researchers in Australia and China has determined that global food-miles account for nearly 20% of total food-systems emissions; moving fruit and vegetables in refrigerated vehicles is particularly emissions-intensive. We estimate the carbon footprint of food-miles by using a global multi-region accounting framework.

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Australia forecasts lithium export earnings of $16B in 2022-23, up from $5B in 2021-22

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2022

This will make lithium Australia’s sixth-largest resource and energy commodity export. Australia is the largest lithium exporter in the world, accounting for 46% of the world’s lithium production in 2021. In 2022–23 Australia’s export earnings are forecast to more than triple — from $4.9 billion in 2021–22 to $16.1

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JordProxa and Zelandez partner to boost lithium carbonate supply – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

AUGUST 9, 2024

Modular industrial plant design company JordProxa, headquartered in Australia, and lithium brinefield technology provider Zelandez, based in Argentina, have signed a partnership to rapidly increase the supply of lithium from North and South American lithium brine mining companies.

Carbon

Carbon Supplies Argentina Charging

bp selects Honeywell’s Ecofining technology for new diesel and sustainable aviation fuels project in Australia

Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2022

bp is undergoing pre-feed engineering for its proposed diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) project in Western Australia. bp announced in October 2020 that it would cease fuel production at its Kwinana Refinery and convert it to an import terminal, helping to ensure ongoing security of fuel supply for Western Australia.

Australia

Australia Diesel Fuel Convert

BHP to supply nickel to Tesla; focus on supply chain sustainability

Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2021

BHP will supply Tesla Inc. with nickel from BHP’s Nickel West asset in Western Australia; BHP says that Nickel West is one of the most sustainable and lowest carbon emission nickel producers in the world. Nickel is a key metal used in Tesla’s battery technology. We are delighted to sign this agreement with Tesla Inc.,

Supplies

Supplies Lithium Ion Tesla Australia

Study finds solid-state batteries could reduce the carbon footprint of an EV battery by up to 39%

Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2022

Solid-state batteries could reduce the carbon footprint of electric vehicle batteries by up to 39%, according to a study commissioned by European environmental NGO Transport & Environment (T&E) from Minviro , a company specializing in raw material life-cycle analysis, which compared emerging solid-state technology to current battery chemistries.

Carbon

Carbon Lithium Ion Battery Batteries

Argonne study compares life cycle emissions of battery-grade lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide from brines and ores

Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2021

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have conducted life cycle analyses (LCAs) for battery-grade lithium carbonate (Li 2 CO 3 ) and lithium hydroxide monohydrate (LiOH•H 2 O) produced from Chilean brines (Salar de Atacama) and Australian spodumene ores. This information will help us achieve our goal of being carbon neutral by 2030.

Carbon

Carbon Emissions Li-ion Batteries

Wärtsilä energy storage solution to support the decarbonization of mining operations in Australia

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The technology group Wärtsilä will supply a 9.2 MWh energy storage system to Zenith Energy, an Independent Power Producer (IPP) in Australia. Zenith sells the electrical power it produces to some of the world’s largest mining companies with operations in Australia.

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Energy Storage Australia Energy Engine

UK to award £54M to 15 projects developing innovative carbon removal technology

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2022

The UK government is awarding £54 million to 15 projects to develop technologies that remove carbon emissions from the atmosphere. The carbon dioxide can then be permanently stored or used in various products or applications. The biochar is rich in carbon and can be used as a fertilizer. Cambridge Carbon Capture Ltd.,

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SK On takes 10% stake in Australia’s Lake Resources; battery-grade lithium supply deal

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2022

SK On, a global electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturer, signed a lithium supply deal with Australia’s Lake Resources ( earlier post ), a move that will further strengthen its key battery materials supply chain in response to robust business growth and geopolitical risks. million electric vehicles (EVs). Earlier post.).

Supplies

Supplies Batteries Battery Argentina

Woodside joins Japanese consortium to study exporting carbon-neutral hydrogen as ammonia

Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2020

Australia-based Woodside has signed an agreement with Japanese companies JERA Inc, Marubeni Corporation and IHI Corporation to undertake a joint study examining the large-scale export of hydrogen as ammonia for use decarbonizing coal-fired power generation in Japan. Green hydrogen is produced from renewable energy using electrolysis.

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Hydrogen Carbon Corporation Japan

Argosy Minerals announces first shipment of lithium carbonate from Rincon project

Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2020

Australia-based Argosy Minerals Limited confirmed the successful export shipment of five tonnes of >99.5% lithium carbonate product from its industrial-scale pilot plant operations at the Rincon Lithium Project in Salta Province, Argentina. lithium carbonate product. Argosy Li 2 CO 3 shipment.

Carbon

Carbon Argentina Mitsubishi Nevada

bp and thyssenkrupp Steel to advance the decarbonization of steel production; low-carbon hydrogen and renewable power

Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2022

bp and thyssenkrupp Steel have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) focused on the development of long-term supply of low-carbon hydrogen and renewable power in steel production, helping accelerate the steel industry’s wider energy transition. thyssenkrupp Steel accounts for 2.5%

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Carbon Renewable Power

Lithium Australia produces LFP cathode material and Li-ion batteries from mine waste

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Lithium Australia NL reported that its wholly owned subsidiary VSPC Ltd has successfully produced Li-ion battery cathode material, and Li-ion batteries (LIBs), from tri-lithium phosphate produced directly from mine waste using the SiLeach process. SiLeach background. C, followed by sulfation bake, undertaken at about 250 ?C.

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Li-ion Waste Australia Batteries

Sparc Technologies, QUT partner to develop a hard carbon anode material from bio-waste for Na-ion batteries

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Australia-based Sparc Technologies has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). The partnership will begin with a project in the battery anode space with the development of a novel process for the production of hard carbon from bio-waste.

Waste

Waste Sodium Carbon Lithium Ion

Rio Tinto and Sumitomo to build Gladstone hydrogen pilot plant to trial lower-carbon alumina refining

Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2023

Rio Tinto and Sumitomo Corporation will build a first-of-a-kind hydrogen plant in Gladstone, Australia as part of a A$111.1-million million) program aimed at lowering carbon emissions from the alumina refining process. million (US$74.3-million) million (US$21.5-million) Construction will start in 2024. Earlier post.)

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Carbon Building Corporation

Panasonic Energy signs agreement for synthetic graphite supply in EV battery production

Teslarati

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Panasonic Energy parentheses with Novonix for a supply of sustainable graphite for electric vehicle (EV) battery production. The Japanese company signed a binding off-take agreement with Novonix, a battery materials and technology company based in Queensland, Australia.

Supplies

Supplies Energy Battery Batteries

Roskill expects only 3.2% reduction in shipping emissions of spodumene concentrate by 2030; order of magnitude below IMO ambition

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Shipping emissions form a significant part of the commodity supply chain’s carbon footprint, particularly for those commodities reliant on the mass transport of low-grade ores and concentrates. Roskill has analyzed the trend in carbon intensity of shipping using spodumene concentrate as an example. Regulatory background.

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bp to use Honeywell’s Ecofining technology in 5 SAF projects in US, Australia and Europe

Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2023

Honeywell UOP Ecofining technology will be installed at the following bp sites: Cherry Point refinery in Blaine, Washington; Rotterdam II refinery in Rotterdam, Netherlands; Lingen refinery in Lower Saxony, Germany; Castellón de la Plana refinery in Castellón, Spain; and Kwinana Oil refinery in Kwinana, Australia.

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Rio Tinto validates BioIron process for low-carbon iron-making; biomass and microwave energy

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Rio Tinto has shown the effectiveness of a low-carbon iron-making process using ores from its mines in Australia in a small-scale pilot plant in Germany, and is now planning the development of a larger-scale pilot plant to further assess its potential to help decarbonize the steel value chain. Earlier post.)

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Carbon Energy Climate Change Emissions

Tesla signs nickel supply agreement with Australian mining company

Teslarati

JULY 21, 2021

Tesla and BHP, a global mining company in Australia, signed a nickel supply agreement with each other recently. BHP will supply Tesla with nickel from its Nickel West asset in Western Australia. Talk of a possible nickel supply agreement between Tesla and the Australian mining company started last year in October.

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Phillips 66 taking 16% stake in synthetic graphite supplier NOVONIX; building US-based battery supply chain

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2021

Phillips 66 has entered into an agreement to acquire a 16% stake in NOVONIX Limited, an Australia-based company that develops and supplies synthetic graphite materials for lithium-ion battery anodes. This strategic investment enables Phillips 66 to directly support the development of the US battery supply chain.

Supplies

Supplies Building Batteries Battery

Nuseed, bp partner to accelerate market adoption of Nuseed Carinata as a sustainable low-carbon biofuel feedstock

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Nuseed Carinata is a non-food cover crop that can be used to produce low-carbon biofuel feedstock that is independently certified, sustainable and scalable. Initial research and market development programs are also underway in Europe and Australia. bp expects to initially target low-carbon biofuel markets in Europe and North America.

Carbon

Carbon Market North America Argentina

Cohort of new stakeholders joins Open Hydrogen Initiative

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Decarbonizing hydrogen supply is critical to initiate uptake in these new sectors, and an industry-standard emissions measurement and verification process is key to providing the market transparency that facilitates new supply agreements.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Insight Oklahoma Carbon

Australia Goes All-in on Green Hydrogen

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

The carbon-free rigs will pack 50 kilos of hydrogen zapped from water using electricity from the refinery’s dedicated solar power plant. Welcome to Australia, where a green-hydrogen boom is in full swing. And while coal plants still supplied over half of Australia’s power in 2021, change is afoot. Why a hydrogen truck?

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Australia Hydrogen Green Renewable

Rio Tinto to build first solar plant in Western Australia to power iron ore mine; 12 MWh Li-ion system

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Rio Tinto approved a $98-million investment in a new solar plant at the new Koodaideri mine in the Pilbara, Australia, as well as a lithium-ion battery energy storage system to help power its entire Pilbara power network. billion Koodaideri mine was approved in November last year with construction commencing earlier this year. square miles).

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Solar Li-ion Australia Power

Bank Australia plans to eliminate loans for ICE vehicles in 2025

Teslarati

AUGUST 22, 2022

Bank Australia has announced it will no longer supply car loans to internal combustion engine vehicles by 2025. According to Fox Business , Bank Australia has announced that it will no longer supply loans for ICE vehicles by 2025. Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns?

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Lithium mining in Western Australia unearths the key to net zero

Innovation News Network

AUGUST 24, 2022

Lithium Power International details how Western Australia’s extensive lithium mining projects will be critical to achieving carbon neutrality Lithium fever is into its third year in Western Australia, and it shows few signs of slowing. Plans to upgrade lithium […].

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bp to take a 40.5% stake and operatorship of the AREH green hydrogen hub megaproject in the Pilbara

Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2022

Based on the development of world-scale renewable power generation, AREH, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, intends to supply renewable power to local customers in the largest mining region in the world and also to produce green hydrogen and green ammonia for the domestic Australian market and export to major international users.

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Hydrogen Green Australia Wind

Deloitte forecasts clean hydrogen market to hit US$1.4T per year by 2050

Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2023

In the report, Deloitte uses clean hydrogen to encompass both green hydrogen— produced from renewable electricity via electrolysis—and blue hydrogen—produced via natural gas coupled with carbon capture and storage. Overall, this outlook shows clean hydrogen delivering crucial carbon emission reductions.

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ioneer signs binding lithium offtake agreement with Toyota / Panasonic JV PPES

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2022

Australia-based ioneer, an emerging lithium–boron supplier, signed a binding offtake supply agreement with the Prime Planet Energy & Solutions (PPES) joint venture between Toyota Motor Corporation and Panasonic Corporation, in which ioneer will supply PPES with lithium carbonate from its Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron Project in Nevada.

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Stellantis signs offtake agreement and invests in Alliance Nickel for battery-grade nickel and cobalt sulfate

Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2023

and exploration and development company Alliance Nickel (formerly GME Resources) signed a binding offtake agreement for the supply of 170,000 tons of nickel sulfate and 12,000 tons of cobalt sulfate in total over an initial five-year period. Stellantis N.V. Pricing for the nickel and cobalt sulfate is linked to index prices.

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Roskill: COVID-19 could wipe out US$1.0B of lithium supply in 2020

Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2020

Using Roskill’s latest quarterly price forecast for lithium carbonate (published in late-March 2020), this equates to a value loss of approximately US$960 million. >. Roskill anticipates 2020 production losses in Chile to be kept below 20%.

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Rio Tinto and ARENA to study hydrogen calcination to reduce carbon emissions in alumina refining

Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2021

If we can replace fossil fuels with clean hydrogen in the refining process for alumina, this will reduce emissions in the energy and emissions intensive refining stage of the aluminum supply chain. Exploring these new clean energy technologies and methods is a crucial step towards producing green aluminum. —ARENA CEO Darren Miller.

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Imerys and British Lithium form JV to accelerate development of UK’s largest lithium deposit

Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2023

Since 2017, British Lithium has carried out drilling and exploration on Imerys-owned land in Cornwall and developed a unique process and pilot plant to produce battery-grade lithium carbonate. Lithium spodumene deposits in Australia are the world’s largest source of hard rock lithium. Mineral background.

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Volkswagen to source low-carbon steel from Jindal Steel Group | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

JUNE 18, 2024

Volkswagen and Vulcan Green Steel, a Jindal Steel Group company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a partnership for low-carbon steel – a key element of Volkswagen’s green steel strategy. Decarbonising supply chains is a decisive factor for the Volkswagen Group on the road to carbon neutrality.

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Oman Carbon Wind Green

CRU: Lithium prices plunging as hype meets reality; impact of new supply, disappointing BEV sales

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Weaker-than-expected demand in China is partly responsible, but the main driver has been the ongoing avalanche of new supply into the market, as plentiful cheap spodumene meets ample conversional capacity in China, the CRU analysts said. Another key factor which has contributed to the decline in lithium prices is the surge in mine supply.

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Supplies Price Sale Li-ion

SK E&S, SK Plug Hyverse partner with Korea South-East Power for green hydrogen & green ammonia production

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2022

SK E&S signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with SK Plug Hyverse and KOEN regarding cooperation for carbon neutrality and the production of green hydrogen and green ammonia which will be consumed for co-firing at KOEN’s natural gas and coal based thermal power plants, by using electrolyzers to be produced in Korea by SK Plug Hyverse.

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Green Hydrogen Plug Power

Ford signs nickel supply agreement with Australian mining Company

Teslarati

AUGUST 3, 2022

Ford Motor Company signed a Memorandum of Understanding for nickel (Ni) supply with BHP. The Australian mining company has already signed a nickel supply agreement with Tesla and Toyota. Ford Motor Company plans to form a multi-year nickel supply agreement with BHP, slated to start as early as 2025.

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Woodside, 6 Japanese partners to conduct feasibility study on lower-emissions ammonia supply chain from Australia to Japan

Stellantis signs binding agreement with Element 25 for manganese sulphate supply for EV batteries; sourced in Australia, processed in US

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Ammonia market to triple by 2050 with nearly all growth coming from low-carbon supply; shift to energy markets

Benchmark: hard-rock lithium can be 3x as carbon intensive as lithium from brine

Navigator CO2 to provide ~600k TPA of CO2 as a feedstock for ultra-low carbon Infinium eFuels

Study finds transporting food and ingredients generates 20% of carbon emissions in the global food system

Australia forecasts lithium export earnings of $16B in 2022-23, up from $5B in 2021-22

JordProxa and Zelandez partner to boost lithium carbonate supply – Charged EVs

bp selects Honeywell’s Ecofining technology for new diesel and sustainable aviation fuels project in Australia

BHP to supply nickel to Tesla; focus on supply chain sustainability

Study finds solid-state batteries could reduce the carbon footprint of an EV battery by up to 39%

Argonne study compares life cycle emissions of battery-grade lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide from brines and ores

Wärtsilä energy storage solution to support the decarbonization of mining operations in Australia

UK to award £54M to 15 projects developing innovative carbon removal technology

SK On takes 10% stake in Australia’s Lake Resources; battery-grade lithium supply deal

Woodside joins Japanese consortium to study exporting carbon-neutral hydrogen as ammonia

Argosy Minerals announces first shipment of lithium carbonate from Rincon project

bp and thyssenkrupp Steel to advance the decarbonization of steel production; low-carbon hydrogen and renewable power

Lithium Australia produces LFP cathode material and Li-ion batteries from mine waste

Sparc Technologies, QUT partner to develop a hard carbon anode material from bio-waste for Na-ion batteries

Rio Tinto and Sumitomo to build Gladstone hydrogen pilot plant to trial lower-carbon alumina refining

Panasonic Energy signs agreement for synthetic graphite supply in EV battery production

Roskill expects only 3.2% reduction in shipping emissions of spodumene concentrate by 2030; order of magnitude below IMO ambition

bp to use Honeywell’s Ecofining technology in 5 SAF projects in US, Australia and Europe

Rio Tinto validates BioIron process for low-carbon iron-making; biomass and microwave energy

Tesla signs nickel supply agreement with Australian mining company

Phillips 66 taking 16% stake in synthetic graphite supplier NOVONIX; building US-based battery supply chain

Nuseed, bp partner to accelerate market adoption of Nuseed Carinata as a sustainable low-carbon biofuel feedstock

Cohort of new stakeholders joins Open Hydrogen Initiative

Australia Goes All-in on Green Hydrogen

Rio Tinto to build first solar plant in Western Australia to power iron ore mine; 12 MWh Li-ion system

Bank Australia plans to eliminate loans for ICE vehicles in 2025

Lithium mining in Western Australia unearths the key to net zero

bp to take a 40.5% stake and operatorship of the AREH green hydrogen hub megaproject in the Pilbara

Deloitte forecasts clean hydrogen market to hit US$1.4T per year by 2050

ioneer signs binding lithium offtake agreement with Toyota / Panasonic JV PPES

Stellantis signs offtake agreement and invests in Alliance Nickel for battery-grade nickel and cobalt sulfate

Roskill: COVID-19 could wipe out US$1.0B of lithium supply in 2020

Rio Tinto and ARENA to study hydrogen calcination to reduce carbon emissions in alumina refining

Imerys and British Lithium form JV to accelerate development of UK’s largest lithium deposit

Volkswagen to source low-carbon steel from Jindal Steel Group | Autocar Professional

CRU: Lithium prices plunging as hype meets reality; impact of new supply, disappointing BEV sales

SK E&S, SK Plug Hyverse partner with Korea South-East Power for green hydrogen & green ammonia production

Ford signs nickel supply agreement with Australian mining Company

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