China’s coal futures on Tuesday recorded their best session since Bejing’s mid-October intervention to cool runaway prices, aided by concerns over tight domestic supply and demand rebounding after the Lunar New Year holidays. The most-active thermal coal futures on the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange closed up 10% at 876.8 yuan ($137.81) a tonne on Tuesday, a .
China is spending billions of dollars to produce a key raw material for solar panels, clearing the way for a boom in the use of the clean energy technology.
[global lithium mineral energy shortage electric vehicle supply chain pressure will be further intensified] (Pilbara Minerals Ltd.) of Pilbara Mining, one of Australia's largest lithium miners Sharp cuts in production and shipments of lithium mines on Tuesday will further tighten the supply of key raw materials for electric vehicle batteries. The Perth, Australia-based company cited a number of reasons for the decline in shipments, including equipment commissioning, unexpected production shutdowns and a shortage of skilled workers.