How North East may become a goldmine for India's quest for rare earthA Geological Survey of India report indicates that the North-East region of India possesses over 70 million tonnes of untapped minerals and...
05 Sep, 2025, 02.35 PM IST
A Lithium startup is building a US battery plant that will skirt Trump's tariffsPure Lithium Corp. is developing a lithium metal battery, aiming to replace lithium-ion batteries with a completely domestically manufactur...
18 Jun, 2025, 10.04 AM IST
Billion-year treasure or environmental bombshell? $1.5 trillion lithium find inside supervolcano sparks global frenzyDeep within a 16-million-year-old supervolcano on the Nevada-Oregon border lies the world’s largest known lithium deposit. As the U.S. eyes...
17 May, 2025, 06.01 PM IST
Coal India looks to Argentina for lithium brine assetsCoal India Ltd (CIL) is looking into lithium brine assets in Argentina to diversify from coal. The company invited consultants for technica...
12 Jan, 2025, 11.40 AM IST
Rio Tinto-backed lithium tech startup set to raise second round of fundsElectraLith is developing a filtration technology that can extract lithium from brine deposits without using water or chemicals, which woul...
25 Nov, 2024, 04.03 PM IST
Lithium startups bet on high demand in battery-powered futureWhile lithium demand is about 1 million tons annually today, BNEF projects that it will reach 3 million by 2030 and over 6 million by 2050 ...
30 Aug, 2024, 10.14 AM IST
Milestone Moment: First commercial lithium production with new filtration tech begins in UtahInternational Battery Metals (IBAT) achieves breakthrough lithium production in Utah with a water-efficient DLE method. Producing 5,000 ton...
11 Jul, 2024, 11.31 AM IST
No benefits likely from 38 critical blocks put on sale in this decade: IcraIcra reported that benefits from the 38 critical mineral blocks on sale may not materialize by 2030 due to incomplete exploration. India's ...
22 May, 2024, 04.09 PM IST
India faces uphill battle in Lithium mining and explorationRitabrata Ghosh, Vice President - Corporate Ratings & Sector Head at ICRA, emphasizes that China currently dominates 65% of the lithium pro...
21 Jan, 2024, 05.42 PM IST
India to explore lithium in ArgentinaAn official statement this is the first ever lithium exploration and mining project by an Indian government company. KABIL will start explo...
16 Jan, 2024, 09.04 PM IST
India to pump in about Rs 200 cr to explore, develop five lithium blocks in Argentia: Govt"The project will help India strengthen lithium supplies, while developing lithium mining and downstream sectors of both the countries," mi...
15 Jan, 2024, 09.20 PM IST
Race for speedier lithium is underway from Arkansas to ArgentinaThis new way of mining lithium is being seen as the solution for increasing output while protecting the environment all across the world’s ...
31 Aug, 2023, 10.10 AM IST
Chile's lithium nationalisation plans to get a fillip from new extraction technologyDirect lithium extraction technologies are designed to extract the metal from salty brines in Chile's Atacama Desert and elsewhere in the w...
24 Apr, 2023, 04.28 PM IST
General Motors moves deeper into mining with EnergyX lithium investmentPrivately-held EnergyX is one of several companies developing so-far unproven direct lithium extraction technologies (DLE) that could help ...
11 Apr, 2023, 07.25 PM IST
Bill Gates-led fund invests in making lithium mining more sustainableAbout 75% of the world’s lithium is trapped in underground deposits of briny water that contain a mixture of salts. The typical way to reco...
21 Feb, 2020, 10.12 AM IST
How Elon Musk's Tesla Motors maybe killing flamingos with its electric carsSome locals say that miners sucking water out of the earth to get to the lithium are starving the long-legged birds in the process.
05 Jul, 2016, 10.26 AM IST
Tesla makes deal with Pure Energy Minerals to obtain lithiumThe agreement between Tesla and Pure Energy is contingent upon several studies to determine if the Nevada project will meet Tesla's needs.
18 Sep, 2015, 12.54 PM IST