Antarctic research reveals how rare earth elements move underground through freeze-thaw cycles in desert environments.

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.

Because of inconsistencies in our datasets, a number of data sources were used for this series. Data for current production of lithium, cobalt, and nickel comes from USGS Mineral Commodity ...

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 ...

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.