Lithium is emerging as a strategic resource, pushing Europe to develop domestic mining and reduce dependence on Chinese-controlled critical mineral supply chains. In recent years, the European Union ...

Aerial view of lithium mining pits in Atacama Salt Flat, Chile, on July 29, 2024. The minerals found in an electric-car battery often travel thousands of miles around the world before the vehicles ...

The project, launched in June 2023, was set to see lithium mined from granite in china clay pits A project once hailed as part of a new "gold rush" for Cornwall has been put on hold. The project, ...

On September 24, 2025, Neptune Energy published an update from the Altmark region in Saxony-Anhalt, a landscape better known for gas production than battery metals. The company said it had been ...

Zimbabwe's ban on raw lithium exports is forcing Chinese miners to rethink their strategy, speeding up plans to process the metal locally instead of shipping it to China's vast rechargeable battery ...