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Legal analysis: What Project Vault means for critical minerals regulation
3+ hour, 29+ min ago (694+ words) The US is accelerating efforts to reshape global critical minerals trade policy, with a growing focus on price floors, coordinated trade mechanisms, and supply-chain security, following the conclusion of a broad Section 232 national security investigation and a high-level ministerial meeting…...
Albemarle to idle Kemerton lithium hydroxide processing plant in Western Australia
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (274+ words) The news'follows actions in 2024 to place Train 2 into care and maintenance and to cease expansion plans for Trains 3 and 4.' The Kemerton plant processes spodumene from Greenbushes,'the world's'biggest hardrock lithium mine. Albemarle holds ownership interest and half of the offtake…...
Aqua Metals to acquire Lion Energy
5+ day, 32+ min ago (255+ words) This transaction is intended to add meaningful revenue to Aqua Metals while expanding our participation in the rapidly growing energy storage market,Aqua Metals CEOsaid Steve Cottonsaid in a news release." In late 2025,Aqua Metalssigned a non-binding letter of intentwithWestwinElements,…...
Congo copper exports rose 10% last year as China drives output
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (640+ words) The Democratic Republic of Congo increased its copper exports by almost 10% last year, cementing its status as the world's second-largest producer of the industrial metal after Chile. The central African nation's copper shipments rose to 3.4 million tons in 2025, up from…...
Evolution Mining to power ahead with expansion
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (389+ words) Evolution Mining Ltd. will use its record profits off the back of high gold prices to push ahead with two major high-grade expansion plans, according to chief executive officer Lawrie Conway. Australia's second-largest gold miner will proceed with A$794 million…...
Elevra, Mangrove Lithium ink offtake MoU for NAL project in Quebec
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (336+ words) At the time,Sayona said theall-stock deal for US-based Piedmontwill help toconsolidateits Canadian operations and strengthen its exposure to the North American electric vehicle sector. A binding definitiveagreement betweenElevraand Mangrove may be signed at a future date, subject to Mangrove…...
Reimagining magnet materials: How AML is challenging the rare earth status quo
1+ week, 2+ day ago (819+ words) For decades, permanent magnets have been one of the least questioned links in the electrification supply chain. Motor makers bought block magnets, designed around them, and accepted a system dominated by sintered neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) alloys " and by China." By the…...
Levitating Halo Sphere, floating magnet on a superconductor
1+ week, 3+ day ago (91+ words) February 06, 2026 | 12:50 pm In the end it wasn't about copper, iron ore or coal, but who was paying more. The USGS found that the country was 100% import reliant last year for 16 minerals. For decades, permanent magnets have been one of the…...
Saudi graphite plant is ‘wake-up call’ for Quebec, France: CEO
1+ week, 3+ day ago (990+ words) Northern Graphite's(TSXV: NGC) decision to build a $200 million battery material plant in Saudi Arabia should serve as a warning for governments in Canada and France, where the miner has been mulling similar projects, CEO Hugues Jacquemin says. Ottawa-based Northern…...
US mineral supply chains remain exposed to China chokehold: USGS report
1+ week, 3+ day ago (524+ words) A new report by the US Geological Survey reveals that the United States has grown more reliant on foreign imports of minerals over the past year, highlighting the increased urgency to bolster its domestic supply chains. In its annual mineral…...