Avalon Advanced Materials has received a C$3.5 million ($2.5m) financing from Belgium’s SCR-Sibelco NV to help advance its Lake Superior lithium project in Ontario and the Nechalacho REE (rare earth elements) and zirconium project in the Northwest Territories.

Zimbabwe lithium miners want royalty payments to the government linked to metal prices as the current market downturn threatens the viability of investment projects.

Australia’s Vulcan Energy Resources said on Tuesday it had received 100 million euros ($106.42 million) in funding from the German economy ministry for its renewable energy plant in Landau, Germany.

Start-up Vulcan Energy will begin large-scale industrial production of lithium hydroxide in Germany in 2027, two years later than originally planned, the company said on Friday as it started operations at a demonstration plant.

China’s industry ministry is proposing to step up domestic exploration of mineral resources under a plan to support the energy storage manufacturing industry.

Australia’s IGO on Thursday revised the total project cost for Chemical Grade Plant 3 (CGP3) at the Greenbushes lithium mine to about A$880 million ($578.51 million).

Local mining officials in northwest Argentina have approved a two-year permit for Argentina Lithium & Energy Corp to kick off exploration efforts in the Paso de Sico concession, the company said on Thursday. Argentina is pushing to accelerate investments in lithium, the key battery metal, which is seen as a bright spot for the battered...

Environmental and Indigenous groups on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging the US Interior Department’s approval of ioneer’s Rhyolite Ridge lithium mine in Nevada, the first domestic source of the battery metal to be permitted by Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Las Vegas, groups including the Center for...

Portuguese energy company Galp is in no rush to make a final investment decision (FID) to build a battery-grade lithium refinery in Portugal amid challenging market conditions, CEO Filipe Silva said on Monday. A 50-50 joint venture between Galp – which earlier on Monday reported a 22% decline in third-quarter adjusted core profit – and...

Koch Inc. signed a deal with a US lithium venture to provide technology that includes an industry-first guarantee of recovering at least 95% of the metal from salty water using its new extraction methods. The company’s Koch Technology Solutions unit agreed to license its so-called direct lithium extraction process to a joint venture of Standard...