Tag: Lithium

Canadian lithium, cobalt miners may benefit from EV batteries boon

Canadian lithium, cobalt miners may benefit from EV batteries boon

EV batteries use a game changer for small mining companies Canadian mining companies developing cobalt and lithium mines all over the world are hoping to benefit as automakers shift to building electric vehicles, driving up the need for EV batteries. According to a Reuters report, Toronto-listed cobalt companies, Ecobalt Solutions and Fortune Minerals are in […]

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Clean energy tech brief July 20: Captain Kirk explores the outer reaches of…home solar energy

Clean energy tech brief July 20: Captain Kirk explores the outer reaches of…home solar energy

Also in this brief: Only 1 in 8 US homes uses programmed thermostat with central AC, will there be enough lithium to meet growing battery needs William Shatner joins Save Money, Save the World alliance, switches home to solar power Actor William Shatner, famous for playing Captain Jame T. Kirk on the 1960s Star Trek TV series and […]

MGX Minerals hunts battery lithium in oilfields

MGX Minerals hunts battery lithium in oilfields

MGX Minerals using lithium found in oilfield wastewater in process By Barbara Lewis LONDON, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Canada’s MGX Minerals is close to completing testing of technology that uses brine from oilfields aiming to shorten the production of lithium to just one day, CEO Jared Lazerson told Reuters. Hopes for the trial and plans […]

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U.S. plans to stockpile more lithium compounds used in batteries

U.S. plans to stockpile more lithium compounds used in batteries

U.S. plans to stockpile more lithium compounds used in batteries LONDON, Oct 5 (Reuters) – The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) said it has a mandate to buy more lithium compounds, including 600 kg of lithium cobalt oxide (LCO) and 2,160 kg of lithium nickel cobalt aluminium oxide (NCA), in the fiscal year starting Oct. […]

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