Articles On Traka Resources (ASX:TKL)

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High Voltage: Why is everyone getting so excited about rare earths?

Investor sentiment for rare earths stocks is flying There is about 750g of magnet rare earths on every EV motor, about 2 tonnes in offshore wind turbines  EVs, wind turbines are exponential growth sectors Our High Voltage column wraps all...

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Eye on Lithium: BMW counting on better battery cells to power EV ambition

BMW Group says it will produce round lithium-ion cells with longer ranges and faster charging  To supply the battery cells needed for the NEUE KLASSE models, BMW Group has awarded contracts for construction of battery cell factories to CAT...

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CLOSING BELL: How to bank $1.5bn doing sweet bugger all on your arse in a deck chair

Queen Elizabeth II soared off into the heavens Classic Minerals pulls off an amazing impersonation of Her Maj MinRes does absolutely nothing, but banks $1.5bn in value anyway   What a cracker of a day. This morning was an absolute rager,...

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Closing Bell: Local market thrills on Dovish RBA lunch; and two terrific non-takeovers at Tyro and AQC

ASX 200 jumps 1.8%  Small Caps index adds 0.8% TYR and AQC lead small cap wins   The ASX Emerging Companies index (XEC) has risen 0.7% on Thursday. The benchmark 200 index climbed 1.8% on heavy late trade following quasi-dovish language...

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Eye on Lithium: EV front-runner Tesla reportedly struggling with new battery tech

Tesla’s 4680 battery might not reach high production volumes until 2023 Charger Metals pushes Medcalf lithium prospect towards drilling with a program earmarked for December Xantippe’s conducting pre-drilling surface mapping at the Upper C...

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Eye on Lithium: An exploration and acquisition bonanza for ASX juniors as lithium sentiment flies high

EV Resources will acquire remaining 20% of the Shaw River lithium project Midas Minerals defines 8km of pegmatites at Newington lithium-gold project Kula Gold identifies six lithium targets at Brunswick project All your ASX lithium news,...

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Eye on Lithium: Chinese domestic lithium market pricing surged 3.9% in August, nearing all time highs

Lithium carbonate prices surged by 3.9% over the period of August 3 – 31 to an average RMB 472,000/tonne Benchmark Mineral Intelligence expects spodumene contract pricing to remain stable going into quarter four Spanish-focused Infinity Li...

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Eye on Lithium: ASX listed Essential Metals flags production at Pioneer Dome by 2025

Essential Metals says lithium production could kick off in 2025 at Pioneer Dome  Green Technology Metals begins 2,500m diamond drilling program at Roots Project Resource Mining prepares initial field exploration program across Finnish lith...

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Eye on Lithium: Piedmont picks Tennessee for its massive 30,000tpy lithium hydroxide plant in the US

Piedmont plans to build massive lithium hydroxide plant in Tennessee by 2025 Power Minerals plans to kick off resource definition drilling at the Salta lithium project  Tambourah Metals flags 1,420ppm lithium rock chip samples at the Russ...

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Eye on Lithium: EV laggard Toyota hedges bets with US$5bn battery investment

Toyota intends to increase battery production capacity by up to 40GWH Battery production for EVs will kick off between between 2024 and 2026 Argosy completes 95% of development work at the Rincon Lithium Project in Argentina All your lith...

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Eye on Lithium: 1.7GWh of energy storage will enter the Aussie market in two years

Melbourne-based Akaysha partners with US energy storage company to deploy energy storage systems into the Aussie market  Galan’s high-flow long-term pumping test results continue to deliver higher production capacity parameters at the Pata...

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High Voltage: Here’s why those lithium super profits aren’t slowing down any time soon

ASX lithium miners are raking it in, a trend set to continue for a while yet CATL’s new batteries travel an impressive +1,000km between each charge Last week’s top ASX performers: Anson, White Cliff, Dart Mining  Our High Voltage column w...

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Eye on Lithium: Honda teams up with LG Energy to build US$4.4b EV battery plant

Honda and LG Energy want to supply lithium-ion batteries exclusively to Honda facilities in the North American Market  Construction will take place in early 2023 ahead of mass production in 2025 Xantippe engages Argentinian consulting comp...

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Eye on Lithium: Core Lithium, Tesla get more time to hash out offtake deal

Core and Tesla agree to extend termination date for the binding off-take term sheet to October Kalamazoo accepts a $3m cornerstone investment to fast-track lithium and gold projects  Matsa wraps up a heavily oversubscribed placement after...

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Eye on Lithium: California votes to knife ICE powered cars by 2035, Allkem’s revenues just went up by 800%

California expected to become  first US state to ban sale of new combustion engine (ICE) vehicles Allkem reports record FY results with revenue increasing over 800% to US$770 million Anson executes a binding MoU with global lithium extract...

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Eye on Lithium: Ford slashes jobs to focus on US$50bn EV plans

Ford cuts 3,000 jobs within operations that build internal combustion engine vehicles to focus on EV push  Arcadia releases 560% increase to resource at Bitterwasser Project Latin Resources first pass ‘sighter’ metallurgical test work retu...

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High Voltage: Chinese lithium sellers hoarding units ‘in expectation of stronger price rally’

Ford slashes 3,000 jobs as shift to EVs gathers pace At least 2 significant producers in Sichuan have suspended lithium production, while another has halved output due to the heatwave-driven powercrunch: Fastmarkets Last week’s top ASX per...

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Closing Bell: Hands up if you’re an ex-PM about to be sued by BPH Energy, which has gained 235% today on the very prospect of it

The ASX 200 loses 1.2%, XEC sheds 0.9% Weak leads, sour sentiment hobble Asia-Pac markets BPH adds 200% on word ex-PM shot down its prospects   The S&P/ASX Emerging Companies (XEC) index has lost 0.9% on Tuesday, the benchmark ASX 200...

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Eye on Lithium: Macquarie doesn’t see ‘material volume from new spodumene producers until CY23’, ups lithium price target

Macquarie upgrades its quarterly average lithium price assumption by 2% to US$5,000/t The brokers top two lithium picks remain unchanged – Pilbara Minerals and IGO  Encounter Resources expansive land position in the North Arunta province i...

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Eye on Lithium: This lithium junior stole the limelight with a 324pc resources boost

ASN shares soar on big increase to JORC resources at Paradox lithium project A8G’s soil geo-chem results highlight lithium targets at Mt Peak GT1’s latest diamond drilling results increases mineralised volumes and grade at North Aubry All...

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Eye on Lithium: Chinese power outage could sting lithium buyers, push prices 10pc higher

Lithium producers in China’s Sichuan province are suspending production due to the power crunch VP Capital’s John So says lithium prices may surge 10% in the next few weeks TYX acquires 80% of the issued capital of Angolan Minerals  All y...

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Eye on Lithium: EV and battery factories shut down as China faces worst heatwave in six decades

Toyota and CATL announce factory closures in China as a scorching heatwave sweeps the country CRR confirms high-grade lithium up to 2.15% lithium oxide at the Mavis Lake Lithium Project RGL says results from a deep ground penetrating radar...

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Eye on Lithium: Ola co-founder announces India’s largest battery cell plant and entrance into EV market

Ola co-founder plans to sell 1 million EVs in the next two to three years TNG acquires the ‘Sandover Licences’ which covers areas considered prospective for lithium in pegmatites LRS confirms a significant new discovery following an inters...

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Eye on Lithium: Giant CATL to capitalise on battery appetite with second plant in Hungary

CATL eyes second gigawatt battery plant in Europe with construction to kick off later this year  AKE acquires 100% of María Victoria lithium tenement in South America CXO kicks off 40,000m reverse circulation (RC) drilling program at BP33 ...

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Eye on Lithium: Core Lithium uses earth scanning tech to detect pegmatites at Finniss project

Fleet Space says its ExoSphere earth scanning tech is a quicker, cheaper and cleaner mineral exploration option Ragusa Minerals reports promising desk top review and rock chip sampling at NT project Morella picks up another lithium project...

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Eye on Lithium: Scientists can trace the origin of lithium batteries and their ESG credentials

Researchers say lithium’s atomic signature could be traced for ESG purposes Global Lithium Resources flags 24m at 1.03% lithium interval at Manna Winsome Resources starts surface stripping and mapping at Canadian Cancet project   All your...

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High Voltage: Lithium supply shortfall could put (semi) solid-state batteries on ice

Emerging semi-solid battery technology uses a lot more lithium; battery metal shortfall may hamper rollout Are weakening cobalt prices about to get a boost? ASX lithium stocks bouncing back as more evidence emerges of long term supply shor...

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Eye on Lithium: Near-term producers rise as Albemarle confirms lithium shortage for next 7-8 years

Global producer Albemarle says lithium supply crunch will be here til 2030 Latin Resources kicks off feasibility studies at Brazilian project Enterprise Metals plans stage 2 soil sampling at Bullfinch North project  All your ASX lithium n...

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Eye on Lithium: Believe it or not, Chinese lithium prices are still trending upwards

Both technical and battery grade lithium carbonate ticked up by 0.3% and 0.2% respectively last week Sayona says North American Lithium operation ready for restart in Q1 23 Pan Asia Metals has welcomed the Thai Government’s new Policy on M...

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Eye on Lithium: GM just prepaid Livent $198m for a guaranteed six-year supply of lithium hydroxide

GM prepays lithium producer Livent for six-year supply from its Argentinian operations The EV maker is targeting 1 million EVs annually by 2025 in North America Pilbara Minerals has sold a 5,000t cargo of 5.5% spodumene via its auction pla...

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Eye on Lithium: Even if every lithium project comes online we could still have a 2 million tonne deficit by 2030, S&P says

Even with every project online we could still be facing a 2 million mt deficit by 2030, S&P says Critical Resources finds 40.9m of spodumene-bearing pegmatite at Mavis Lake MinRex finds visible spodumene at the Sisters project in WA...

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Eye on Lithium: Ioneer strikes again with Toyota-Panasonic battery JV offtake deal

Toyota-Panasonic JV PPES secures 4,000tpa from ioneers US project Galan Lithium discovers pegmatite at Greenbushes South JV with Lithium Australia Drilling at Core Lithium BP33 deposit delivers 66.88m at 1.78% Li2O   All your ASX lithium...

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Eye on Lithium: Energy storage market firing up, set to hit 500GW by 2031

The global energy storage market is set to reach 500GW by 2031, Woodmac says Pilbara Minerals says adding capacity to Pilgangoora is “money for jam” Neometals kicked off Lithium-ion Battery (LIB) recycling project operations during the qu...

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Eye on Lithium: Scientists extract lithium from ‘unconventional’ water sources

US scientists say there’s lithium in waste water just waiting to be extracted MinRex Resources kicks off RC drilling at historic Shaw River project Reedy Lagoon scraps plans for Alvord lithium brine project after BLM advice All your ASX l...

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Eye on Lithium: GM’s trying to one-up rival Ford with two new EV supply deals

GM enters two new agreements for the supplies of raw materials needed for EVs PAM defines exploration target of 8 to 14Mt at a grade ranging between 0.5% to 0.8% lithium oxide LEL is poised to start drilling at its Solaroz Lithium Brine Pr...

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Eye on Lithium: Lithium prices hold steady off the back of LFP battery demand

Platts says Chinese lithium prices continued to rise off the back of downstream LFP demand Dart Mining nabs earn-in agreement with SQM for Victorian lithium project Eight German councils approve Vulcan Energy’s new exploration licence All...

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Eye on Lithium: Ignoring shouts, world’s second biggest miner dives headfirst into lithium

Rio in offtake deals with Ford, considers lithium exploration in WA Morella raises $7.5m to advance Fish Lake Valley project in Nevada Anson stakes 556 new claims around Paradox project in Utah All your ASX lithium news for Monday, July 2...

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Eye on Lithium: Ioneer’s a beneficiary of eager beaver Fords handouts to accelerate EV push

Ford takes gung-ho approach to reaching 600,000 EVs by end 2023  INR signs signs binding lithium offtake agreement with Ford GL1 returns intersections of lithium bearing pegmatites from a recent drill program at the Manna Lithium Project...

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Closing Bell: Small caps surge again, up 1.5% with lithium the source of this apparently renewable energy

Little caps drive 1.5% higher, dragging benchmark beyond parity Central banks vs inflation episode #48: BoJ does nothing, BoE did nothing All action, no talk: Torque Metals spikes on no news Following a Wednesday night of fine, rich gains...

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Eye on Elon: Tesla boss Lithium Musk says get into refining, ‘it’s a licence to print money’

Elon begs entrepreneurs to get into the lithium refining business Power Metals says Salta lithium-brine suitable for DLE technology Aldoro’s latest assays from Niobe support further resource definition drilling   All your ASX lithium news...

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Eye on Lithium: Allkem rakes in the dough, says spodumene prices will increase in Sept quarter

Allkem posted record production for June Qtr, expects prices to increase Leo Lithium secures US$40 million debt facility for the Goulamina Lithium Project Galan Lithium plans to kick off Environmental Impact Assessment at Argentinan projec...

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High Voltage: US offers support to reduce China’s ‘weaponisation’ of battery metals

The US Department of Energy’s loan programs office is open to Aussie producers Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm wants to reduce reliance on China’s battery metals Rimfire Pacific Mining gains full control of the Broken Hill Cobalt Projec...

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Eye on Lithium: Chinese battery monster could be lured to Mexico to make music for Tesla, Ford

CATL could be considering Mexico for its next battery plant Golden State Mining has kicked off drilling at its Yule project in WA Metals Australia has flagged thick pegmatites at its Manindi project   All your ASX lithium news for Tuesday...

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Eye on Lithium: Panasonic bets big with second US battery facility

Panasonic plans to double capacity with another battery plant in the US Arizona Lithium raises $12m to develop its processing plant and research centre Anson Resources reports high concentrations of lithium and bromine at the Paradox proje...

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Eye on Lithium: Umicore eyes battery materials production plant in Canada

Umicore wants to produce one million EVs by the end of the decade at a new battery plant in Canada Construction will kick off in 2023 as negotiations with potential customers for production contracts in North America gets underway 1MC wrap...

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Eye on Lithium: Bolivia’s President wants to produce 40pc of the world’s lithium by 2030

Bolivia’s President wants the country to supply 40% of global lithium by 2030 Pilbara Minerals nabs US$6188/dmt for 5.5% Li2O cargo of spodumene at latest auction Greenland Minerals expands into lithium with Spanish acquisition   All your...

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Closing Bell: Somebody told somebody China might want Aussie coal again, willing markets bite

The ASX 200 is up, the XEC is up solidly   Energy, resources, materials are back in black  US CPI was a tough read, but not fatal   Australian small caps are trading well over 1.5% higher on Thursday afternoon as mining and energy stocks...

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Eye on Lithium: Australia on track to supply 25% of global lithium by 2030

Australia could be the world’s top producer of lithium by 2030 Latin Resources’ new tenure doubles Colina prospect strike length Critical Resources fast-tracks phase two diamond drilling at Mavis Lake Project   All your ASX lithium news f...

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Eye on Lithium: Ganfeng picks up Lithea Inc and its Salta Province project in Argentina

Ganfeng set to acquire Argentinian company and projects for US$962m Kairos Minerals finds spodumene pegmatite samples at Mt York gold deposit Core Lithium upgrades Finniss mineral resource estimate by 28%  All your ASX lithium news for Tu...

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Eye on Lithium: Benchmark Minerals says Indo-Pacific tossed around like a GeoPolithium football

Benchmark heads down under for geopolitical critical minerals conference Power Minerals signs MOU with global lithium supply chain group for its Salta project Anson ups Paradox Long Canyon No. 2 lithium assay grade by 25%   All your ASX l...

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