It appears KaLeigh Long has found a home for Westwin Elements, a company she founded three years ago to build the first commercial-scale nickel refinery in the United States. "We named the company ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Westwin Elements' nickel-refining plant in Lawton. PROVIDED BY WESTWIN ELEMENTS. Westwin Elements is forging ahead with its ...

A recent article in npj Materials Sustainability proposed reconstructing life cycle inventories (LCIs) for battery-grade nickel by breaking down current and emerging processing routes. This method ...

In the electric-vehicle business, the quandary is known as the nickel pickle. To make batteries for EVs, companies need to mine and refine large amounts of nickel. The process of getting the mineral ...

South Korea’s Posco Holdings Inc has announced it has signed a preliminary agreement with Chinese mining firm Ningbo Liqin for the joint production of nickel for electric vehicle (EV) batteries in ...

Ubaid Manzoor, PhD researcher at the MPI for Sustainable Materials and first author of the Nature publication, using an electric arc furnace to reduce low-grade nickel ores with hydrogen plasma. To ...

The FY25 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has initiated a feasibility study by the Defense Department to explore the potential for refining polymetallic nodule-derived materials into ...