As electric vehicles roll off assembly lines, a bottleneck sits upstream: lithium refinement. Turning raw lithium into the compounds needed for batteries is expensive, messy, and energy-intensive, but ...

Innovative process sets a new benchmark for environmental performance, achieving near-zero discharge in a green, sustainable manner Next Steps: Following this successful demonstration, Avalon intends ...

Chinese carbonate prices had lifted above hydroxide in February, for the first time since April 2018. However they softened in the first two weeks of June, with battery-grade lithium carbonate prices ...

Safer, cheaper lithium sulfide for solid-state batteries is now within reach. A groundbreaking low-temperature process is turning lithium chemicals into high-grade lithium sulfide, a material critical ...

Rio Tinto (ASX, LSE: RIO) will slow the construction of its Nemaska lithium processing plant in Quebec due to rising costs, but sees no major changes to the timeline to production. In the coming ...

Conflicting market signals continue to cloud the outlook for battery metals, especially lithium, with Rio Tinto, one of the world’s biggest miners, pushing ahead with a $6.7 billion acquisition, just ...

Lithium batteries are in the news constantly. But lithium has plenty of other uses. It's a drug for bipolar disorder. It used to be put in soda for hangovers, and it saved the lives of the Apollo 13 ...

South America’s so-called Lithium Triangle is set to draw over $30 billion in about five years as a slew of Chinese, North American and Australian investors looks to seize coveted assets to supply the ...

Albemarle Corporation stock outlook: lithium cycle risks, valuation vs SQM, and long-term thesis. Click for more on ALB stock ...