Author: Cory Groshek
Author/blogger, new energy and battery metals investor, & founder of NewEnergyNarrative.com and ManifestationMachine.com.
- Pilbara Minerals, Galaxy Resources, Piedmont Lithium, LSC Lithium, Standard Lithium, Belmont Resources, and Enertopia share their lithium forecasts for 2019
- China’s top copper smelters just raised their floor treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs) for the first quarter of 2019 by 2.2% (according to unnamed sources)
- China’s Great Wall Motors, which has a lithium offtake deal with Australia’s Pilbara Minerals, just debuted an electric car with 200 miles of range that is set to sell for only US $8,680
- Huayou Cobalt will invest $147.2 million in a copper project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), deepening the Chinese mining company’s presence in the central African country
- Pulitzer Prize winning auto columnist, Dan Neil: We are living through the S-curve of EV adoption and is quite clear that ICE vehicles are going the way of the flip phone
- Cobalt looks to end the year with slumping prices as an overall bearish outlook for 2019 and a temporary oversupply of cobalt sulphate in China weighs on investor sentiment
- Neometals have sold its 13.8% stake in the Mt. Marion lithium project in Western Australia to its JV partners, Mineral Resources and Ganfeng Lithium, who now own half of the project each
- Oliver Heathman, Mining Research Manager at Roskill: Expect more big names in lithium to take more stakes in lithium projects based in Western Australia into the mid-2020’s (VIDEO)
- Brazil is set to give its South American, brine-producing neighbors Chile and Argentina a serious run for their money with a pair of hard rock lithium projects in the pipeline
- The governments of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei have announced a joint pilot program aimed at recycling electric vehicle batteries en masse on a Chinese regional basis
