https://energymetalnews.com/ Lithium, battery metals and energy-transition news — the metals the energy transition runs on. https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/10/qem-idaho-garden-valley-niobium-tantalum-target/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/10/qem-idaho-garden-valley-niobium-tantalum-target/Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:56:19 GMTQEM Limited says historical records at its newly acquired Garden Valley Project in Idaho point to a zoned pegmatite 250ft long and 200ft wide, prospective for niobium and tantalum.Stocks To Watch https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/10/mines-do-not-usually-fail-on-geology-they-stall-on-land-access-302874986/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/10/mines-do-not-usually-fail-on-geology-they-stall-on-land-access-302874986/Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:45:00 GMTLake Victoria Gold Limited completed the statutory disclosure stage of its Phase 3 land valuation and compensation programme at the fully permitted Imwelo Gold Project in Tanzania's Geita Region on September 8, 2026, approximately five weeks after commencement on August 1, 2026, with a large majority of Project Affected Persons completing and signing required valuation documentation.Stocks To Watchsponsored https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/10/troilus-study-lifts-quebec-copper-gold-value-3-2b/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/10/troilus-study-lifts-quebec-copper-gold-value-3-2b/Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:23:16 GMTA fresh technical study on Troilus Mining's Quebec copper-gold project raised its estimated value to $3.2 billion, and the developer says financing is close. The OTC listing closed up 5.23%.Stocks To Watch https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/09/tomagold-204-metre-zinc-hit-berrigan-focus/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/09/tomagold-204-metre-zinc-hit-berrigan-focus/Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:52:11 GMTA 204.25-metre intersection at TomaGold's optioned Berrigan Mine project grades 2.05 percent zinc equivalent, with a 2.40-metre core running 31.31 percent — and the OTC line closed up 14.48 percent.Stocks To Watch https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/09/lidl-cuts-rapid-charging-prices-10m-uk-network/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/09/lidl-cuts-rapid-charging-prices-10m-uk-network/Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:04:11 GMTThe German-owned discounter is using cheaper rapid charging for Lidl Plus app users and a fresh £10 million hardware budget to pull EV drivers into its UK car parks.Top News https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/09/copper-holds-near-record-china-august-imports-slump/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/09/copper-holds-near-record-china-august-imports-slump/Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:54:50 GMTChina's copper imports fell to 382,000 tonnes in August, the weakest for the month in six years, yet prices sit near record highs as mine supply heads for its first annual decline since 2017.Top News https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/09/mitsubishi-materials-akita-tungsten-recycling-expansion/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/09/mitsubishi-materials-akita-tungsten-recycling-expansion/Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:43:26 GMTJapan is paying to recycle its way out of a tungsten squeeze. Mitsubishi Materials will spend about 8-billion yen doubling Akita's ammonium paratungstate output to 2 400 tons a year.Top News https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/09/ame-presses-ottawa-widen-mineral-exploration-tax-breaks/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/09/ame-presses-ottawa-widen-mineral-exploration-tax-breaks/Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:33:36 GMTCanada's exploration lobby says the country's tax incentives stop working just as critical mineral discoveries need the most capital, and wants Ottawa to widen them.Top News https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/09/nobel-cuprita-copper-ip-anomaly-drill-plan-janett/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/09/nobel-cuprita-copper-ip-anomaly-drill-plan-janett/Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:32:28 GMTQuantec's 3D inversion model extended Nobel Resources' Cuprita copper target south and east under shallow cover, as the explorer laid out its next drill phase and opened work at Janett.Stocks To Watch https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/09/scania-40-hydrogen-trucks-toyota-fuel-cells/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/09/scania-40-hydrogen-trucks-toyota-fuel-cells/Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:36:01 GMTToyota and Scania are deepening a hydrogen tie-up that puts the Japanese carmaker's current fuel cell system into 40 heavy trucks, a fleet-scale test of a technology battery power has largely outrun.Top News https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/09/global-uranium-market-projected-to-reach-13-59-billion-by-2033-as-washington-becomes-the-sectors-largest-counterparty-30/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/09/global-uranium-market-projected-to-reach-13-59-billion-by-2033-as-washington-becomes-the-sectors-largest-counterparty-30/Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:20:00 GMTEagle Nuclear Energy Corp. (Nasdaq: NUCL), a development-stage uranium company, engaged LSN Partners for government affairs and regulatory services and appointed Blake Steele, former President and CEO of Azarga Uranium Corp., as a uranium strategy advisor on September 9, 2026, as it advances its Aurora Uranium Project toward a Pre-Feasibility Study scheduled for completion in late 2027.Stocks To Watchsponsored https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/09/the-cheapest-way-to-own-a-copper-mine-is-to-let-someone-else-build-it-302872897/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/09/the-cheapest-way-to-own-a-copper-mine-is-to-let-someone-else-build-it-302872897/Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:06:00 GMTSalazar Resources Limited (OTCQB: SRLZF) reported on September 9, 2026 that construction of the Curipamba-El Domo polymetallic project in Ecuador has reached US$66.2 million in cumulative capital expenditure through June 30, 2026, with commissioning targeted for July 2027; Salazar holds a 25% carried interest while operator Silvercorp funds the build through a US$175.5 million stream financing agrStocks To Watchsponsored https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/09/drones-are-now-mapping-the-tungsten-ground-america-walked-away-from-302872116/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/09/drones-are-now-mapping-the-tungsten-ground-america-walked-away-from-302872116/Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMTWestern Star Resources Inc. (CSE: WSR) has mobilized a high-resolution drone magnetic survey at its 100%-owned Eagle Point tungsten project in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, with data acquisition expected to take approximately three weeks to map mineralized contacts and support target selection ahead of a maiden drill program.Stocks To Watchsponsored https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/09/black-hills-energy-200mwh-pueblo-battery/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/09/black-hills-energy-200mwh-pueblo-battery/Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:48:31 GMTBlack Hills Energy is moving ahead with a 50MW/200MWh battery at its Pueblo Airport Generating Station in Colorado — a four-hour system bolted onto an existing gas site.Top News https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/09/pjm-6gw-backstop-auction-storage-edge/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/09/pjm-6gw-backstop-auction-storage-edge/Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:23:53 GMTPJM's proposed capacity overhaul adds a 6GW backstop auction after prices rose over 1,000% in two years — and battery storage developers look best placed to win it.Top News https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/08/collective-mining-apollo-maiden-resource-guayabales/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/08/collective-mining-apollo-maiden-resource-guayabales/Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:57:19 GMTApollo's first resource estimate splits into a 3.4:1 strip-ratio open pit and a high-grade Ramp Zone underground, with roughly 40,000 metres of drilling already outside the database cut-off.Stocks To Watch https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/08/marimaca-216-metres-copper-pampa-medina/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/08/marimaca-216-metres-copper-pampa-medina/Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:05:19 GMTMarimaca Copper reported a 216-metre intercept grading close to 1% copper at Pampa Medina in Chile, while step-out drilling pushed the copper-silver system 300 metres further.Stocks To Watch https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/08/fuel-shortages-russia-electric-car-sales-double/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/08/fuel-shortages-russia-electric-car-sales-double/Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:03:45 GMTRussian registrations of battery-electric and plug-in hybrid cars more than doubled this summer after Ukrainian strikes on refineries left drivers queuing for petrol.Top News https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/08/global-antimony-market-projected-to-reach-4-5-billion-by-2036-but-the-binding-constraint-is-the-permitting-clock-3028726/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/08/global-antimony-market-projected-to-reach-4-5-billion-by-2036-but-the-binding-constraint-is-the-permitting-clock-3028726/Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:03:00 GMTRUA GOLD Inc. reported on September 8, 2026 the highest-grade drill results to date from its Auld Creek gold-antimony project in New Zealand, including a 0.6 metre intercept grading 82.9 grams per tonne gold and 24.80% antimony, with the company targeting a Fast-Track mining application in October 2026 and pre-feasibility study publication in December 2026.Stocks To Watchsponsored https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/08/astemo-112-million-hybrid-motors-berea-kentucky/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/08/astemo-112-million-hybrid-motors-berea-kentucky/Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:51:34 GMTAstemo Americas is adding nearly 300,000 square feet across two Berea, Kentucky plants and spending over $112 million on hybrid EV motor output, phase one of a multi-year powertrain push.Top News https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/08/metso-copper-processing-order-viscaria-mine-sweden/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/08/metso-copper-processing-order-viscaria-mine-sweden/Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:40:45 GMTMetso will supply key process equipment for the Viscaria copper mine in Kiruna, Sweden, under a newly signed agreement with Gruvaktiebolaget Viscaria — a rare new European copper build.Top News https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/08/bhp-kghm-team-up-hunt-copper-beyond-own-mines/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/08/bhp-kghm-team-up-hunt-copper-beyond-own-mines/Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:28:36 GMTTwo of copper's biggest producers are pooling exploration effort to find deposits neither owns yet, a sign the industry no longer believes existing mines can cover demand growth.Stocks To Watch https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/08/rio-teck-newmont-southwest-copper-juniors/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/08/rio-teck-newmont-southwest-copper-juniors/Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:58:08 GMTThree of mining's biggest names are funding small explorers on copper ground in the U.S. Southwest, and a fourth is chasing domestic antimony and gold. Shares in all three majors rose Tuesday.Stocks To Watch https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/08/domestic-metals-9000m-drill-program-smart-creek-montana/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/08/domestic-metals-9000m-drill-program-smart-creek-montana/Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:23:18 GMTDomestic Metals has spudded a 9,000-metre diamond drill campaign at Smart Creek in Montana, a copper porphyry target 50km from Butte where Rio Tinto owns 40% of the asset.Stocks To Watch https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/08/seabridge-treaty-creek-terminal-energized-ksm-bc-hydro/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/08/seabridge-treaty-creek-terminal-energized-ksm-bc-hydro/Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:48:25 GMTSeabridge Gold's Treaty Creek Terminal was energized August 27, connecting the KSM copper-gold project to BC Hydro power ahead of a November 2026 service date.Stocks To Watch https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/08/ferreyros-antamina-peru-1000th-cat-mining-truck/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/08/ferreyros-antamina-peru-1000th-cat-mining-truck/Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:23:24 GMTFerreyros has put Peru's 1,000th Caterpillar mining truck into service at Antamina — a 410 short ton Cat 798 working a copper-zinc pit 4,300 m up in the Andes.Top News https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/07/uk-backs-48-volt-battery-brain-eatron-warwick/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/07/uk-backs-48-volt-battery-brain-eatron-warwick/Mon, 07 Sep 2026 21:54:36 GMTEatron and WMG at Warwick will build ZENBMS, a 48-volt battery management system, with Infineon — one of ten projects splitting £9 million of DRIVE35 Demonstrate money.Top News https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/07/schaeffler-recovers-rare-earth-magnets-ev-rotors-hungary/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/07/schaeffler-recovers-rare-earth-magnets-ev-rotors-hungary/Mon, 07 Sep 2026 20:04:21 GMTA nine-person team at Schaeffler's Hungarian e-mobility plant found a way to press rare earth magnets out of scrapped EV motor rotors and put them back into new ones.Top News https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/07/blueleaf-universal-peak-malaysia-bess-financing/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/07/blueleaf-universal-peak-malaysia-bess-financing/Mon, 07 Sep 2026 18:58:16 GMTMacquarie-backed Blueleaf Energy and Universal Peak have reached financial close on a 100MW/400MWh battery storage project awarded in Malaysia's government BESS tender, one of four winners.Top News https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/07/axel-ree-gallium-scandium-extraction-tiger-creek/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/07/axel-ree-gallium-scandium-extraction-tiger-creek/Mon, 07 Sep 2026 17:49:40 GMTMetallurgical testwork on Tiger Creek samples returned 95% gallium and 74% scandium extraction at Axel REE's Caladão project, putting two of the West's scarcest critical metals into the same flowsheet.Top News https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/07/sensata-propane-sensor-refrigerant-rule-shift/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/07/sensata-propane-sensor-refrigerant-rule-shift/Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:41:57 GMTSensata's new R290 P+T Sensor targets EV heat pumps running on propane, a refrigerant with no fluorine in its molecule, as automakers screen out PFAS chemistry.Top News https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/07/lanxess-lfp-battery-lab-krefeld-uerdingen/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/07/lanxess-lfp-battery-lab-krefeld-uerdingen/Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:35:03 GMTLanxess has commissioned a battery laboratory at Krefeld-Uerdingen to test its LFP materials inside working cells — a step toward localising Europe's cathode chain.Top News https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/07/lexus-electric-suv-shanghai-gigacasting-line/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/07/lexus-electric-suv-shanghai-gigacasting-line/Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:36:44 GMTLexus plans to build a next-generation battery-electric SUV at Toyota's new Shanghai plant from next year, using gigacasting — a shift with implications for battery demand in China.Top News https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/07/bhp-worley-olympic-dam-carrapateena-epcm/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/07/bhp-worley-olympic-dam-carrapateena-epcm/Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:59:02 GMTWorley picks up study and EPCM work on BHP's Olympic Dam and Carrapateena copper expansions, a step that usually precedes — but does not guarantee — a final investment decision.Top News https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/06/capstone-pinto-valley-modernization-push/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/06/capstone-pinto-valley-modernization-push/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:39:45 GMTCapstone Copper's chief executive says the company will keep investing in its Arizona open pit, aiming to lift output and stretch the mine's remaining life rather than run it down.Stocks To Watch https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/06/kvanefjeld-ruling-energy-transition-minerals/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/06/kvanefjeld-ruling-energy-transition-minerals/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:56:59 GMTEnergy Transition Minerals has won a procedural step in its long-running fight over the Kvanefjeld rare earths licence in Greenland, keeping alive a claim tied to one of the largest undeveloped rare earth deposits outside China.Stocks To Watch https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/06/ivanhoe-electric-1b-us-backed-debt-santa-cruz-copper/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/06/ivanhoe-electric-1b-us-backed-debt-santa-cruz-copper/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:32:13 GMTIvanhoe Electric wants more than $1 billion of U.S. government-backed debt behind its Santa Cruz copper project in Arizona, CEO Taylor Melvin says, with early construction already under way.Stocks To Watch https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/05/water-not-permits-gates-southwest-copper-lithium/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/05/water-not-permits-gates-southwest-copper-lithium/Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:54:06 GMTFederal policy wants more domestic copper and lithium from the U.S. Southwest. The binding constraint is turning out to be water supply secured for decades, not the permit queue.Top News https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/05/midnight-sun-phase-two-dumbwa-zambia-copper/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/05/midnight-sun-phase-two-dumbwa-zambia-copper/Sat, 05 Sep 2026 20:07:28 GMTAfter nearly 75,000 metres of drilling in Phase One, Midnight Sun is switching from blanket coverage to targeted work at its Dumbwa copper deposit in Zambia. What Phase Two has to prove.Stocks To Watch https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/05/saga-metals-5000-metre-drill-labrador-rare-earths/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/05/saga-metals-5000-metre-drill-labrador-rare-earths/Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:57:09 GMTSAGA Metals has begun a drill program of up to 5,000 metres at its Wolverine heavy rare earth project in Labrador, with the first two holes hitting a prospective volcanic unit.Stocks To Watch https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/05/spartan-metals-defense-industrial-base-consortium-tungsten/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/05/spartan-metals-defense-industrial-base-consortium-tungsten/Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:46:09 GMTSpartan Metals has joined the Defense Industrial Base Consortium, giving the tungsten-focused explorer a seat at the table where U.S. defense supply-chain work gets scoped. Shares last closed at 0.40.Stocks To Watch https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/05/lithiumbank-german-tradegate-quote-ht9/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/05/lithiumbank-german-tradegate-quote-ht9/Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:42:33 GMTLithiumBank Resources says its shares now trade on Germany's Tradegate Exchange under HT9, a fourth venue for the Alberta lithium brine developer. What it changes, and what it doesn't.Stocks To Watch https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/05/arbor-jarnet-drilling-lithium-parts-per-million/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/05/arbor-jarnet-drilling-lithium-parts-per-million/Sat, 05 Sep 2026 15:29:26 GMTFive holes and 1,433 metres at Arbor Metals' Jarnet project returned lithium measured in parts per million, hosted in greywacke rather than pegmatite. The OTC line ABRMF closed down 60%.Stocks To Watch https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/05/china-storage-installs-fall-22gw-59gwh-first-decline/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/05/china-storage-installs-fall-22gw-59gwh-first-decline/Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:55:42 GMTCNESA data shows China added 22GW/59GWh of energy storage in H1 2026, the first half-year drop ever recorded, even as overseas orders for Chinese suppliers jumped 83%.Top News https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/05/geely-battery-electric-sales-climb-29-percent-august/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/05/geely-battery-electric-sales-climb-29-percent-august/Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:23:56 GMTGeely's battery-electric volumes rose 29% year over year in August even as its total sales grew only modestly, a split that mirrors a softer Chinese EV market and booming exports.Top News https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/05/evs-outsell-combustion-cars-australia-first-time/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/05/evs-outsell-combustion-cars-australia-first-time/Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:50:44 GMTAustralia's August vehicle market crossed a line no month had crossed before, with EVs ahead of combustion models and the Model Y on top — while Tesla shares closed sharply lower.Top News https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/05/first-tellurium-pyrodelta-media-mention-stock-unmoved/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/05/first-tellurium-pyrodelta-media-mention-stock-unmoved/Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:33:37 GMTFirst Tellurium's subsidiary PyroDelta Energy won a trade-press writeup for its tellurium thermoelectric generators. The OTC shares closed at 0.17, down 0.06%, which tells you how much the market paid attention.Stocks To Watch https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/04/honey-badger-silver-nanisivik-sulphur-germanium-field-program/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/04/honey-badger-silver-nanisivik-sulphur-germanium-field-program/Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:53:49 GMTHoney Badger Silver has laid out its 2026 field work at Nanisivik on Baffin Island, betting that higher sulphur and germanium prices make a closed Arctic zinc-lead mine worth a second look.Stocks To Watch https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/04/metso-30-million-copper-order-asia-pacific/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/04/metso-30-million-copper-order-asia-pacific/Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:02:19 GMTMetso has booked an order of roughly €30 million to supply Premier-line equipment to a copper project in Asia Pacific, a sign that copper capex is still flowing to grinding and crushing suppliers.Top News https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/04/exim-750-million-aclara-louisiana-rare-earth-plant/https://energymetalnews.com/2026/09/04/exim-750-million-aclara-louisiana-rare-earth-plant/Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:54:07 GMTEXIM has told Aclara Resources it would consider up to US$750 million, repayable over as long as 15 years, for a rare earth separation and alloys plant in Louisiana.Stocks To Watch