Alpha Lithium rejects buyout bid by Spanish firm
Tecpetrol said it was prepared to engage with Alpha “immediately” and improve its $178 million (C$241m) all-cash offer.
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How to invest in lithium explorers: pitfalls and pointers
Exploring for lithium, a key component in electric vehicle batteries, is all the rage as companies seek to plug the gap between low supplies and surging demand to fuel the…
Glencore bid for Teck faces stiff Canuck rules, pride as mining M&A activity triples
Glencore (LSE: GLEN) faces an uphill battle to buy Teck Resources (TSX: TECK.A/TECK.B; NYSE: TECK) because of Canadian nationalism despite surging mergers and acquisitions in the critical minerals space. The…
Livent, Allkem create world’s No. 3 lithium miner in US$10.6B merger
Lithium firms Allkem (ASX: AKE) and Livent (NYSE: LTHM) are shaking up the sector by merging to form the world’s third-largest miner of the key metal used in the batteries that power…
RANKED: The world’s longest-lived battery metals mines under construction
With growing demand for battery metals including nickel, lithium and graphite, The Northern Miner has teamed up with our data provider Mining Intelligence to rank the top battery metals projects…
Thacker Pass lithium project in Nevada faces court in June
The top lawyer for Lithium Americas’ (TSX: LAC; NYSE: LAC) Thacker Pass project, which is developing the largest lithium deposit in the United States in northwest Nevada, says it could…
Juniors see glass half full in Chile’s new lithium plan
Plans by the Chilean government to strengthen control over the country’s lithium have sent shockwaves through the industry and markets. As headlines warned of resource nationalism, shares in SQM (NYSE:…
Rio Tinto wants lithium assets, but not at current prices
Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) chief executive Jakob Stausholm says the company continues to be “very interested” in finding lithium projects to add to its portfolio, but…
Atlas Lithium lands US$20M royalty deal for Neves project in Brazil
Atlas Lithium (NASDAQ: ATLX) saw its share price explode on Tuesday after securing US$20 million funding for its flagship hard-rock lithium project in the Lithium Valley area of Minas Gerais,…
Chile’s state miner seeks US$1.5B from lithium partner
Chile’s National Mining Company (Enami) is looking for a private partner to contribute with a US$1.5 billion-investment and knowledge to develop its lithium assets. The state miner Enami will be…
Ioneer’s Rhyolite Ridge lithium-boron resource soars by 168%
A leap in the estimated resources at Ioneer’s (NASDAQ: IONR; ASX: INR) Rhyolite Ridge lithium-boron project in Nevada could give the site enough lithium to charge more than 50 million…
Argentina says new projects will boost lithium production fivefold by 2025
Argentina, the world’s fourth largest global lithium supplier, says it’s on track to reach 200,000 tonnes annual production by 2025. That’s thanks to the development of six new projects in…