American Battery Metals Corp. today commented on the planned joint venture between General Motors and LG Chem. The American auto manufacturer and South Korean chemical and battery manufacturing company will invest $2.3 billion USD to build an electric vehicle battery cell plant in Ohio, creating one of the world's largest battery manufacturing [...]
American Battery Metals today announced that its chemistry and research laboratory is staffed and fully operational. The lab further expands American Battery Metal Corporations infrastructure and capabilities, without having to rely on third parties. In the battery metals exploration and mining business, it is a significant advantage to have a [...]
American Battery Metals attended the 2019 Benchmark Minerals Intelligence Minerals Week in Marina del Rey. Minerals Week is the premier lithium ion battery and electric vehicle supply chain event focused on the key battery raw materials of lithium, cobalt, nickel and graphite. The event, hosted and run by the team at Benchmark Minerals [...]
American Battery Metals Corporation's Chief Executive Officer Doug Cole recently commented on the Rio Tinto waste rock lithium project in Boron, California. Rio Tinto says it could become America's largest supplier of lithium, a key element in electric vehicle batteries, if it can successfully process the metal at a large scale. "Our team had a [...]
American Battery Metals completed a series of successful meetings between its Chief Executive Officer Doug Cole and key lawmakers and personnel in the Department of Energy and Department of the Interior in Washington, Cole visited Washington to discuss the Company's efforts assisting the United States in breaking its reliance on foreign sources of [...]
American Battery Metals today commented on Benchmark Minerals Intelligence's stated criteria for success if the U.S. is to keep pace in the global energy revolution. Following recent meetings at the White House and Pentagon, Benchmark Minerals Intelligence Managing Director Simon Moores confirmed that the U.S. government is deeply engaged in [...]
American Battery Metals Corporation today commented on the future of the global energy storage market. According to Wood Mackenzie, a leading research and consultancy business for the global energy, chemicals, metals and mining industries, "the global energy storage market will balloon to $71 billion in investment into storage systems by 2024 [...]
American Battery Metals today announced that it was selected to the 2019 Greentown Labs/BASF Circularity Challenge accelerator program for battery recycling. The Greentown Labs Circularity Challenge is a six-month accelerator program for start-ups developed in partnership with BASF, one of the world's leading chemical companies. The program intends [...]
American Battery Metals Corporation today released information about the company's Railroad Valley TW-1 drill project. The drilling and fluid sampling method chosen for well TW-1 was highly successful. The drill hole reached a depth of 3004 feet, which was 500 feet deeper than originally projected. Composite drill cuttings yielded highly anomalous [...]
American Battery Metals today congratulated the three scientists who have been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their foundational work in the creation of lithium-ion batteries. John B Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino share the prize for their work. Goodenough, at 97, is the oldest ever Nobel laureate. The [...]
American Battery Metals today released updated information about the company's Railroad Valley, NV geophysical survey. The primary objective of the survey was to determine the depth and locations of saline fluid filled aquifers that may host rich lithium brines. The survey consisted of 57 Magnetotelluric with profiles oriented east-west across the [...]
American Battery Metals today announced the appointment of Ryan Melsert as Chief Technology Officer. Melsert is the former R&D Manager for Tesla's Gigafactory Battery Materials Processing division and will also head up the Company's Battery Metal Extraction and Battery Recycling divisions. Melsert is the recent former R&D Manager for Tesla's [...]