Owner Battery Mineral Resources said this is the first new cobalt-dominant mineral resource delineated in the Sudbury region in the past 50 years.

Researchers say the production of lithium, cobalt, and graphite must expand dramatically to meet the demand enabled by high levels of electric vehicle manufacturing.

The Vancouver-based miner says quartz-rich volcanic tuffs containing anomalous amounts of lithium occur within the Sarcobatus Valley, where Bonnie Claire is located.

The Canadian miner said it wants to achieve a zero-carbon footprint at both its Phase 1 anode materials plant and its Matawinie graphite project in Québec.

New research by the Argonne National Laboratory looks at the role of perovskite oxides that contain lanthanum or strontium, and cobalt combined with oxygen.

Roskill believes demand for silicon metal will continue the upward trend it has experienced in the past two decades.

If the newly created Entreprise Générale du Cobalt is able to capture all production from artisanal miners, it will compete with Glencore, ERG and China Moly.