In my teenage years I worked for a couple of summers at a small amusement park as a ride operator. Looking back on it, the whole experience was a lot of fun, although with the minimum wage at $3.37 an ...

Graphite is sort of the one-hit wonder of minerals. And that hit? Pencils. Everyone loves to talk about pencils when it comes to graphite. If graphite were to perform a concert, they'd close out the ...

The Trump administration is imposing a substantial tariff on a raw material that is critical for electric vehicle batteries, which could significantly raise the cost of building EVs in the United ...

Graphite is a crucial element in many industrial processes, as well as being a critical component of lithium-ion batteries – and by extension the expansion of electric vehicles (EVs). With it ...

Graphite is a key ingredient of the modern electric vehicle battery. A genuine supply crunch could snarl the energy transition. President Joe Biden’s ambitions for an American-made electric vehicle ...

The outlook for the graphite market is promising due to its usage in the battery industry and energy storage applications, as well as steel-making. With China dominating the natural graphite market, ...

In recent years, export controls have moved to the forefront of foreign policy, and not only in the United States. The week of October 16, 2023, was marked by moves and countermoves that may have ...

The broad graphite market faced continued price pressure in 2024, as supply and demand trends diverged pushing natural graphite into deficit. As the year progressed slower than forecasted end use ...