They're in the headlines every week—critical minerals like lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite and the rare earth elements ...

A team of researchers in Japan has created a cleaner alternative to using cobalt—a rare element and key component in lithium-ion batteries—that also improves the battery’s chemistry. SAN ...

Cobalt is the chemical element found in almost every tech gadget that uses a lithium-powered battery on the market today - a smartphone, tablet or laptop requires a few grams of it, ...

The collaboration will focus on securing essential minerals such as copper, lithium, cobalt and rare earth elements—resources ...

Cobalt is a metal that produces a blue pigment. It's essential for making many of the batteries powering phones, computers, and electric vehicles, but mining it is linked to human rights abuses.

Cobalt isn't new to industry. But as the founder of TELF AG Stanislav Kondrashov points out in the article, its importance is growing fast.“Cobalt is not only powering electric vehicles-it's also ...

But after cobalt was isolated in 1735, it took a leading role in permanent magnets, because cobalt is one of just three naturally ferromagnetic (like iron) elements at room temperature.

Cobalt is a key element in electric vehicle batteries. Evelution Energy will build the first U.S. cobalt processing plant in Yuma County. Local Sports Things To Do Politics Travel Advertise ...

Because of inconsistencies in our datasets, a number of data sources were used for this series. Data for current production of lithium, cobalt, and nickel comes from USGS Mineral Commodity ...

The letters singled out, in footnotes, one U.S. company that lawmakers believe is on the cusp of building a cobalt processing plant: Westwin Elements, started this year by KaLeigh Long, a well ...

India-based obsolete electronics recycling firm says it will grow its rare earth elements recycling capacity one hundredfold.

Westwin Elements is now on track to become the first major cobalt and nickel refinery in the country, with a full greenlight from the Lawton City Council as of early 2023. That doesn’t mean it ...