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The importance of EV batteries is growing as the motoring sector gradually transitions away from petrol and diesel, but the UK has managed to build one of the most resilient and sophisticated supply chain networks anywhere in the world, a new report has revealed.
Long-term medical conditions can seriously limit freedom and quality of life when patients need constant monitoring or if medication needs to be regularly administered.
Barium titanate is used in a range of important electronic applications, which could make it an important mineral for increasingly high-tech defence requirements.
The year 2026 has inadvertently become the year of the electric car, which is a boon for manufacturers, toll processors, suppliers of raw materials and dealers alike.
With battery technology a core market area for many raw material suppliers and processors, there has naturally been a lot of interest in a battery technology that has been described as the future of high-capacity, safe energy storage.
Diamonds are renowned for being the world’s most precious gemstone, with some worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
In a world that is increasingly reliant on minerals for specialist machinery, technology and advanced agriculture, it is important to secure supplies. This does not just mean establishing customer relationships with suppliers or domestic sources, but handling crises.
There is a phenomenon in journalism often referred to as “man bites dog”, where reports of unusual events feel more likely and common because they are more widely reported, but the reason why they are so widely reported is that they are rare enough to be newsworthy.
Britain’s first commercial lithium plant is up and running, but this is not the only mineral the growing EV sector will need.
The recent controversy over Donald Trump’s ambitions for the US to acquire Greenland as part of its territory has partly focused on the potential value of the critical minerals the island is believed to possess under its vast ice sheets.