Livent announced its Hombre Muerto Salt Lake project for lithium has been exempted on April 6. Since the Argentine government issued an emergency decree stipulating the implementation of the national mandatory quarantine from March 20 to March 31, 2020, Livent began to cease operations and evacuated employees and contractors from the hill where Hombre Muerto is located and suspended all production operations in the provinces of Catamarca and Salta in Argentina.

Molybdenum market quotation in China: the latest prices of ferro molybdenum, molybdenum bar and molybdenum powder are unchanged from last week due to active market trading and optimistic view of market participants. 

The new finding in ancient tungsten iron ore contradicts the theory of the mysteriously lost oxygen of the Earth 2 billion years ago. The Earth didn't always have this much oxygen. About 2.4 billion years ago, the rise of cyanobacteria and shifting of tectonic plates breathed new life into our planet, triggering a Great Oxidation Event (GOE).

A 90% lithium extraction rate has been realized by an international research team led by the Monash University of Australia. The team has developed an innovative new filtration method that makes the extraction of lithium in only a few hours, accelerating us toward energy future.

ANCA, an Australian manufacturer of machine tools, is teaming up with national science agency CSIRO, Sutton Tools and the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre (AMGC) to develop and bring to market a new hybrid manufacturing platform that combines additive and subtractive capabilities. The new and potentially disruptive system will be designed to manufacture tungsten cutting tools. 

Analysis of latest tungsten market from Chinatungsten Online

China’s black tungsten concentrate price declined to a six-month low this week on lower offers from traders and sluggish market demand, while the ammonium paratungstate (APT) export price remained steady with few trades heard.

The rare earth price in China was in the downward trend in the week ended on Friday April 3, 2020 due to sluggish demand both at home and abroad. Market participants held negative view on the market and declined their offers for most products. 

The molybdenum price in China bottomed out in the week ended on Friday April 3, 2020 as downstream users became active in stocking up, boosting market confidence.

Tesla is working on a bid to deploy one of the biggest battery systems in the world with 244 Megapacks, the company's latest giant battery system, on a Hawaii to replace traditional power plants. This is also an important part of Tesla's deployment in the energy business. According to foreign media reports on March 30.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has shared the first pictures showing its new all-electric X-57 Maxwell plane on Twitter, which will be 500 percent more efficient than conventional aircraft while producing zero emissions and less noise pollution. The X-57 Maxwell aircraft will be the first manned X-plane produced by the administration in the past two decades and is designed to help develop standards for future all-electric aircraft, according to Mail Online report.