The Benchmark World Tour 2019 concluded its North American leg and the presentations from the events are now available to download.
In its fifth year, our free seminar series on the lithium ion battery to electric vehicle and energy storage supply chain has become the world’s leading forum of its … Read more
Released: 08 April 2019 |
LONDON, UK | Benchmark Mineral Intelligence (Benchmark Minerals) is delighted to announce that Vivas Kumar has been appointed Principal Consultant. Vivas joins from Tesla, one of the world’s foremost electric vehicle (EV) and lithium ion battery producers.
Vivas was responsible for building Tesla’s lithium ion … Read more
Benchmark Mineral Intelligence was recently quoted in an article written by Bloomberg News renewable energy correspondent, Joe Ryan.
The article focuses on lithium-ion battery production in China, and in particular how despite Elon Musk and Tesla attracting many of the headlines, their plans modest when compared to China.
By 2020 … Read more
A new report by Amnesty International has uncovered human rights abuses by one of the world’s leading cobalt producers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Ltd, a mining group partly owned by the Chinese government, has been accused of selling cobalt sourced from child labor into … Read more
The 1964 World’s Fair held in New York City was the touchstone for a postwar US.
It was the grandest and most optimistic show on the planet at the time and on an influential par with the British Empire’s Great Exhibition in 1851.
Designed not only to show off technological … Read more
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Goldman Sachs has declared wind and solar power industries the “new shale gas” in … Read more
The EU will have to tread carefully when considering which minerals and countries to include in its upcoming conflict minerals legislation.
Many of these industries are niche and inflexible meaning any swift and significant change will likely have a negative impact on the EU and on the source country that … Read more
With Europe set to follow in US footsteps with the introduction of conflict mineral legislation, the sustainability of critical mineral markets … Read more
As part of our Supply Chain 20/20 initiative, Benchmark launches a new white paper examining the impact of disruptive technology on critical raw materials
As leading global companies such as Apple, Google and Tesla Motors push forward with the commercialisation of new, disruptive technologies, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence analyses the impact … Read more