Latest Lithium Ion Batteries News

Livium Ltd boosted battery recycling revenue and secured a new centralised hub to expand capacity, while advancing rare earth and solar panel recycling technologies. Strategic funding for its lithium cathode plant remains under review.

Altech Batteries has won conditional approval for a €46.11 million German government grant supporting its CERENERGY® Sodium-Chloride Solid-State battery project, while shifting its Silumina AnodesTM R&D operations to Germany to enhance efficiency and cut costs.

1414 Degrees (ASX:14D) advances its SiNTL silicon anode technology, aiming to disrupt lithium-ion batteries in the rapidly expanding drone and UAV sector with higher capacity and faster charging.

Metals Australia’s new PEA for its Quebec Battery Anode Material Refinery reveals robust economics with a $2.05 billion USD pre-tax NPV and a 25.6% IRR, underpinning plans for a final feasibility study.

Locksley Resources has kicked off maiden diamond drilling at its Desert Antimony Mine and El Campo Rare Earth Element Prospect, alongside producing 99.5% purity antimony trioxide, reinforcing its push for a US domestic critical minerals supply chain.

Tivan Limited has delivered a pivotal feasibility study for its Speewah Fluorite Project, secured tranche funding totalling $16.3 million, and gained recognition from Japan and US governments as a key fluorite supplier. Concurrently, it expanded its portfolio with acquisitions and high-grade discoveries across tungsten and copper-gold projects.

Sovereign Metals has delivered a definitive feasibility study (DFS) for its Kasiya Rutile-Graphite Project in Malawi, revealing robust economics, a 25-year mine life, and the potential to become the world’s largest producer of natural rutile and flake graphite, both critical minerals for Western supply chains.

QEM Limited is set to acquire two past-producing critical mineral projects in Idaho, backed by a $2.645 million placement. The move aligns with US efforts to secure domestic supplies of fluorspar, tungsten, and niobium amid global supply chain vulnerabilities.

Critical Resources has defined a focused 2026 exploration program at its Mavis Lake lithium project while confirming an orogenic gold system in New Zealand and delivering promising early results from its solid-state lithium-ion battery evaluation.

International Graphite Limited (ASX: IG6) and ALKEEMIA have achieved graphite purification exceeding 99.9% total graphitic carbon across diverse concentrate samples, reinforcing their joint venture plans to build a major processing hub in Italy.

Black Canyon Limited has reported encouraging beneficiation testwork results from its Wandanya manganese project, achieving manganese oxide concentrate grades exceeding 40% using simple density-based methods. The company has also commenced a 15,000m drilling program alongside environmental surveys, progressing the project towards scoping-level economic evaluation.

1414 Degrees has raised $2.69 million to accelerate its clean energy storage technologies, targeting the booming global data centre market and industrial energy users.