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Electric car boom to turbocharge battery metal producers
Demand for metals used in battery electric vehicles could rise six-fold if electric cars reach 8% of road traffic by the mid-2020s, delivering huge dividends for producing countries like Democratic Re...
Volvo produces first cars with recycled cobalt mapped on Blockchain
The automotive company has produced the first cars containing recycled cobalt mapped using blockchain technology. It has also joined a project to monitor cobalt from Democratic Republic of Congo
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Argus LiCoNi 2019
Be a part of this annual gathering of miners, consumers and investors
The 3rd edition of Argus LiCoNi is taking place on Tuesday 3rd December – Wednesday 4th December 2019 in Seoul, South Korea....
International Ferroalloys Conference
The International Ferroalloys Conference 2019 will take place in Budapest (Hungary) from 17 November to 19 November. This year’s edition features:
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Held in a 5-star world-class...
Scientists developed multifunctional metal alloys that can change shape in the magnetic field
Scientists from Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) with their colleagues developed multifunctional metal alloys that emit and absorb heat at the same time and change their s...
American Manganese develops a method to recover cobalt from spent batteries
American Manganese entered the lithium-ion recycling business after it realized that the metal processing method it developed for its own property had a much wider application.
The company developed...
25th CRU Ryan’s Notes Ferroalloys Conference
The 25th CRU Ryan's Notes Ferroalloys Conference, which will take place in Miami, Florida (USA) from October 20 to 22, is the most important and largest annual gathering of ferroalloy professionals in...
New process to recover metals from recycled lithium-ion batteries
Perth-based metals developer Neometals is a step closer to proving the technical and economic viability of its proprietary process to recover metals from recycled lithium-ion batteries.
A completed s...
Transforming waste heat into clean energy
Do you feel the warmth coming off your computer or cell phone? That's wasted energy radiating from the device.
With automobiles, it is estimated that 60% of fuel efficiency is lost due to waste heat....
EU aims to become powerhouse of battery production and recycling
The EU plans to invest billions of euros developing a “green label”, sustainable electric vehicle battery industry in a bid to challenge Asia’s market dominance.
The EU battery market could be...
Researchers discover surprising quantum effect in hard disk drive material
Scientists find surprising way to affect information storage properties in metal alloy.
Sometimes scientific discoveries can be found along well-trodden paths. That proved the case for a cobalt-iron...
An environmentally friendly method to recover materials from lithium-ion batteries
Rice University researchers literally have a solution to deal with the glut of used lithium-ion batteries left behind by the ever-increasing demand for electric vehicles, cellphones and other electron...