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Benchmark Mineral Intelligence is delighted to announce its first Battery Gigafactories Asia Pacific – where the region’s government, industry and finance will meet to chart a course for the region’s lithium…

Join Benchmark Mineral Intelligence in Washington DC for Battery Gigafactories USA 2024, a live, and in-person conference being held June 11-12 at the JW Marriott Washington DC, USA. Two days…

By 2033, 10% of metal supply to come from battery recycling The lithium-ion battery recycling market has experienced significant growth in the past 18 months, particularly in the US and…

Benchmark Mineral Intelligence is heading to Los Angeles for a full revamp of Benchmark Week in 2023 – maintaining the deal-making and networking for the industry – which combines Benchmark’s…

By Tom Butcher In addition to its base metal, oil and other natural resources, Brazil has considerable wealth in a variety of minor metals. Brazil has been having a very…

Charging into the future—novel rock salt for use in rechargeable magnesium batteries Life today depends heavily on electricity. However, the unrelenting demand for electricity calls for increasingly greener and “portable”…

This past year, horse racing regulators worldwide, most recently in Australia, have turned their attention to an unexpected substance: cobalt. Every horse needs this important element to survive, but some…

  Indonesia’s ascendance to the heart of the lithium-ion battery supply chain has been incredible; a rise that has fundamentally challenged many of the mining industry’s long-held beliefs.   To…

30th Anniversary The Cobalt Congress is the world’s leading event on cobalt, bringing together the entire cobalt value chain, wider critical minerals industry as well as the world’s largest cobalt investors…

Battery chemical markets have faced a turbulent ride through 2024, with a downturn in lithium prices coupled with cobalt metal prices falling to and staying at eight-year lows. Slowing electric…

COBALT: What about small scale miners? In global markets the price of cobalt, used in batteries for high-tech products from phones to cars , has nearly tripled to $81,500 a…

In this submission to the Crucible on the subject of critical materials underpinning energy transition, Project Blue focusses on cobalt.  While there are numerous challenges facing the cobalt supply chain,…

The three-day event is organized by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and will take place at the premises of KIT, Campus Nord in Karlsruhe/Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen. To register, please visit: https://www.storiesproject.eu/event-details/energy-conversion-and-storage-days…

In Part 2 of this series for The Crucible, analysts Andrew Matheson and Patrick Stratton of CPM Group examine what transport electrification means for minor metals   CPM Group analysts…

FAME is a transnational research and innovation project to identify economically viable, technology to exploit European ore deposits that are often relatively small in tonnage terms. Technologies will be optimised…

Asia’s large investments in infrastructure will undoubtedly lead to a further increase in energy storage capacity and electric vehicle demand globally. The continent remains in a dominant position in the…

  Join Fastmarkets in Seoul to meet industry leaders from across Asia, discuss partnerships and identify areas of collaboration with over 250 international delegates. You will also leave with the…

Join 500+ key voices from across the global battery supply chain to focus in on Europe. You will delve into the policies and investment driving the region forward, the latest…

Fastmarkets European Battery Raw Materials Conference gives you a front-row seat to access insights and analysis of the battery raw materials market from the leaders and innovators shaping the industry.…

CPM Group recently attended both the Minor Metals Trade Association (MMTA) and Metal Events Rare Earths (MERE) meetings in Singapore. Along with the valuable opportunity to reconnect with people sometimes…

So, summer appears finally to have come here in New York. What better prelude could we have had than the excellent International Minor Metals Conference in Toronto at the end…

Resources: Protect of Promote? Dear Members. Good Morning and a very Happy New Year! This Sunday morning, here in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, I am looking out on only a little…

Letter from North America: Morocco   With an Observation on Rare Earths in Russia and Further Observations on Certain Mineral Resources in Morocco and Western Sahara Dear Members I trust…

Online: Webinar by Cobalt Institute The Cobalt Institute conducted a Life Cycle Assessment of cobalt and cobalt compounds to inform stakeholders about the potential environment impacts of the production of…

By Dr K. Dessai, Independent Consultant in Metals, Mining and Energy Minor metals are used in the commonly-known applications of aerospace, automotive and energy generation, to name a few, and…

The world’s population is growing quickly; people are moving to urban centres, and raw material demand is expected to increase three-fold by 2050. Government and business need to face these…

Welcome to the November Crucible Dear MMTA members, Welcome to your November 2023 edition of the Minor Metal Trade Association’s magazine, the Crucible. Following on from the October webinar, Mastering…

25-26 April 2023 Charlotte, NC, USA   Day 1 – Tuesday, April 25 For delegates who had neither played golf at the Bermuda Run Country Club (kindly sponsored by ICD…

“There needs to be more widespread investment in the development and exploration of all critical mineral resources” Benchmark Mineral Intelligence (Benchmark) is a world leading clean energy supply chain price…

DRC court puts administrator in charge of Tenke Fungurume mine At the end of February, the Tribunal of Commerce in the south-eastern city of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo, announced…

Forging ahead with titanium   As US seeks to cut its dependence in titanium, critical for aviation and military industries, on imports, particularly from Russia, long overdue investments in domestic…

Online, featuring LME guest speaker Pact’s webinar “Building resilient livelihoods & tackling child labour: Learnings from Pact’s work in Colombia, DRC and Zambia”  commemorates  Human Rights Day, one year after…

Minor Metals in Focus: Cobalt In our monthly column for the MMTA, we shine the spotlight on a key minor metal, looking at current market conditions and themes for the…

If you think trade sanctions, the battle for critical metals and the race to secure a local supply chain is all a modern headache, read on.  A recently discovered time…

EVs drive demand Annual global lithium-ion battery demand is expected to sur-pass 1 TWh (1,000 GWh) for the first time this year. Demon-strating the scale of growth in this sector,…

A long-standing member of the MMTA, Alfred H Knight (AHK) has enabled global trade for over 140 years. They instil trust and certainty in the global supply chain through the…

    As one who pays superficial attention to the booming battery industry, I’m struck by the frequency with which new technologies are touted that are “set to replace lithium-ion…

News spotlight In the last two weeks of March, representatives form 36 member countries of the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the UN regulator tasked with protecting marine life in international…

Visual Capitalist produces some fantastic infographics, and they kindly gave the Crucible permission to reproduce them. After the popularity of ‘What’s in an iPhone 6’, we’re getting inside another consumer of minor metals….

Visual Capitalist produces some fanstastic infographics, and they kindly gave the Crucible permission to reproduce them.  The image  below shows ‘What’s inside an iPhone 6’ and as you can see…

Fastmarkets has relaunched rare earth prices and coverage after a pause of several years. The Crucible asked Strategic Markets Editor for Technology Metals, Caroline Messecar, to talk about why a…