The DRC produces 70% of the world’s cobalt, yet nearly $1 billion vanishes from the legal supply chain each year.

Europe is believed to possess significant yet unexploited lithium resources in Germany, Czechia, Serbia, Spain, Portugal and Austria. However, mining projects in these countries have faced ...

However, research has shown that long-term mining of lithium brines in other salt pans, such as the Salar de Atacama in Chile, can cause groundwater levels to decline and land to subside ...

Newly discovered documents show that BYD may have a new power play in the works regarding mining rights in “Brazil’s lithium valley.” The move could be its biggest outside of China as it ...

Its best lithium prospects are hard rock deposits that lend themselves to traditional mining, unlike tricky lithium extraction from salt flats in Argentina, Bolivia and Chile. Chinese electric ...

Separately, Canmax also announced this month that it will invest over $200 million to develop two lithium mining deposits elsewhere in northern Nigeria, working with local company Three Crown ...

They have opposed a lithium-mining project that threatens the area’s endemic species.Credit...Lucas Foglia for The New York Times Supported by By Meg Bernhard Few Americans follow the nation’s ...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Chinese electric carmaker BYD acquired mineral rights for two plots of land in a lithium-rich part of Brazil in 2023, entering the mining business in its biggest market outside of ...

To his astonishment, they told him they were researchers working for the Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto. They also revealed that the family’s land sat on the periphery of an area rich with ...