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No stopping strong global EV sales growth
China’s month-on-month new electric vehicles (NEV) sales rebounded in August after month-on-month declines in June and July. The drop-in sales between May and June was the first drop since September...
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has found new deep-sea mineral deposits
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate just concluded a successful three-week data acquisition expedition on the Mohn’s ridge in the western part of the Norwegian Sea.
The Mohn’s ridge is a seaflo...
France’s Saft targets new generation battery production from 2020
France's Saft, a unit of energy company Total, expects its four-way European battery alliance to begin mass production of new generation lithium-ion batteries from early 2020.
Saft, Siemens, Solvay...
Fortune Minerals announces successful tests to produce clean cobalt concentrate from the Nico Project
Fortune Minerals Limited has announced that it has received successful results of metallurgical test work verifying that it can produce an upgraded and essentially arsenic-free cobalt concentrate for...
China International Ni&Co Industry Forum 2018
China International Ni&Co Industry Forum 2018 will take place from 6 to 8 November in Xiamen, Fujian Province (China). This event has become an important platform for discussing the trend of coba...
Innovation award for an acid-free rare earth metals recycling process which can also recover cobalt
Researchers at the Critical Materials Institute (CMI) and Ames Laboratory invented a magnet recycling process in which magnets are dissolved in water-based solutions, recovering more than 99 percent p...
