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

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.

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 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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Cobalt is a relatively common metallic element with physical properties broadly similar to nickel and iron. It is hard and (unlike iron) brittle, and generally nonreactive to common environments ...

The phone in your hand contains several grams of this element; some of it, as Siddharth Kara shows in “Cobalt Red,” was likely mined by people hacking away in toxic pits for subsistence wages.

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 ...