Accounts of unusual White House meeting reflect new approach to obtaining critical minerals that observers describe as gloves ...

Chinese battery makers are racing to turn sodium, the stuff behind table salt, into the next big power source for cars and data centers. CATL, BYD and others have announced sodium-ion and solid-state ...

Resources Minister Madeleine King met the boss of battery chemicals giant Albemarle in Washington as the company prepared to shut down its lithium hydroxide plant south of Perth and deal a new blow to ...

Lithium, a key ingredient in the batteries of electric vehicles, has a fast-growing new market, battery energy storage ...