As demand — and competition — for critical minerals used in clean technologies heats up around the world, mining startups are ...

Major oil companies are drilling in East Texas again, but not for oil. This time, they’re after lithium for batteries and other rare elements. Chevron and Halliburton announced East Texas projects ...

But soon, prices crashed back down to earth. We saw lower-than-expected demand for EVs in the US, and developers ramped up mining and processing to meet demand. Through late 2024 and 2025, lithium ...

An employee with EnergyX, an Austin-based lithium startup, works in the company's laboratory on Oct. 7. This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news ...

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 ...

Lithium could be selectively extracted from "low quality" brines using a surprising mechanism discovered at the University of Michigan. The technology could help make brine lakes rich in magnesium a ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. Selection underscores Frontier's leadership in advancing responsible lithium development and supply chain security in ...

The "Lithium Market Industry Trends and Global Forecasts to 2035: Distribution by Type of Product, Type of Application, Type of End User, and Geographical Regions" report has been added to ...

With a global turn to greener technologies in efforts to tame climate change, electric vehicles (EVs) are high in demand, even despite their recent slowdown. Concurrently, there is soaring demand for ...

The incentive plan proposes a 15% capital subsidy for eligible investments in lithium and nickel-processing projects starting on or after April 1.

Aerial view of lithium mining pits in Atacama Salt Flat, Chile, on July 29, 2024. Credit - Lucas Aguayo Araos—Anadolu/Getty Images The minerals found in an electric-car battery often travel thousands ...