They're in the headlines every week—critical minerals like lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite and the rare earth elements ...

Nickel (Ni) and cobalt (Co) are critical elements for modern technologies, with high-grade Ni and Co ores becoming ...

Cobalt is a metal that produces a blue pigment. It's essential for making many of the batteries powering phones, computers, and electric vehicles, but mining it is linked to human rights abuses.

Cobalt is the chemical element found in almost every tech gadget that uses a lithium-powered battery on the market today - a smartphone, tablet or laptop requires a few grams of it, ...

Topline. A team of researchers in Japan has created a cleaner alternative to using cobalt—a rare element and key component in lithium-ion batteries—that also improves the battery’s chemistry.

But after cobalt was isolated in 1735, it took a leading role in permanent magnets, because cobalt is one of just three naturally ferromagnetic (like iron) elements at room temperature.

Cobalt is a key element in electric vehicle batteries. Evelution Energy will build the first U.S. cobalt processing plant in Yuma County. Local Sports Things To Do Politics Travel Advertise ...

The letters singled out, in footnotes, one U.S. company that lawmakers believe is on the cusp of building a cobalt processing plant: Westwin Elements, started this year by KaLeigh Long, a well ...

Cobalt is a relatively common metallic element with physical properties broadly similar to nickel and iron. It is hard and (unlike iron) brittle, and generally nonreactive to common environments ...

Cobalt has released a new version of their Q-6 laser rangefinder, the Q-6SM. If you are unfamiliar with Cobalt rangefinders, ...

The phone in your hand contains several grams of this element; some of it, as Siddharth Kara shows in “Cobalt Red,” was likely mined by people hacking away in toxic pits for subsistence wages.

Cobalt, a key chemical element found in lithium-ion batteries and used in many everyday devices such as smartphones, tablets and laptops, is mined in appalling conditions in the DCR, according to ...