Lithium – Challenges and Opportunities Underscore Need for Domestic Resource...
In an interview with InvestingNews.com, Simon Moores, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence’s managing director and a member of the ARPN panel of experts, discusses challenges relating to Lithium – one of the...
View ArticleVanadium’s Time to Shine?
Steve LeVine, Future Editor at Axios and Senior Fellow at The Atlantic Council, has called it “one of the most confounding areas of research” and a “technology that, while invented more than two...
View ArticleU.S. Senate to Hold Hearing on Energy and Mineral Markets, Member of ARPN...
We’ve called it “the new black.” The Guardian even went as far as ringing in the “Ion Age.” Bearing testimony to the growing importance of battery technology, the U.S. Senate will hold a hearing...
View ArticleMcGroarty Warns of Real World Problem for 21st Century American Warrior
In a new commentary for Investor’s Business Daily, ARPN principal Daniel McGroarty warns of “America’s unilateral disarmament in the resource wars.” Invoking the world of Marvel comics, in which...
View Article“Something Does not Come from Nothing” – Formulation of Mineral Resource...
“Something does not come from nothing. That fact can be easily forgotten when it comes to seemingly abstract concepts like ‘energy,’” writes Angela Chen in a new piece for technology news and media...
View ArticleToday: Three Members of ARPN Expert Panel to Discuss Battery Tech Materials...
Bearing testimony of the immense importance of the issue of battery tech materials and their supply chains, three members of the ARPN panel of issue experts will be presenting their viewpoints at a...
View ArticleU.S. to Cooperate with Canada and Australia To Encourage Responsible Resource...
Amidst growing concerns over the availability of metals and minerals underpinning the EV revolution, the United States, Canada and Australia have joined forces to encourage the responsible development...
View ArticleAgainst Backdrop of Battery Arms Race, Chemists Receive Nobel Prize for Work...
Critical minerals are a hot button issue. Materials that long seemed obscure like Rare Earths, Lithium, Cobalt, Graphite, and Nickel have entered the mainstream and are making headlines every day....
View ArticleLithium: Battery Arms Race Powers R&D Efforts in Quest for Domestic Mineral...
As the “tech wars” gear up and the “battery arms race” shifts in to higher gears, efforts to promote the securing of domestic critical mineral supply chains are not only underway in policy circles in...
View ArticleNew Chart Unveils Supply Chain Weaknesses for Manganese, a Critical Input for...
Testifying before the U.S Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources in February 2019, ARPN expert panel member and managing director of Benchmark Mineral Intelligence Simon Moores sounded the...
View ArticleARPN Expert Panel Member: U.S. Must Turn to Building Out Critical Mineral...
Earlier this month, U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), long one of the leaders on Capitol Hill pushing for a comprehensive overhaul of our nation’s mineral resource policy, addressed the...
View ArticleEvent Alert – This Week: EV Supply Chain Festival 2020
“Cancelled.” It’s a word we’ve become all to familiar with in recent week. Sports. Concerts. Conferences. As a consequence of the current Coronavirus pandemic, we’ve seen a slew of festival...
View ArticleExperts to U.S. Senators: It’s “Not Too Late for the U.S.” to Secure Mineral...
In a timely hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, witnesses discussed the urgency of securing U.S. mineral supply chains in a post-COVID context. Committee Chair...
View ArticleIndependence Day 2020 – Critical Mineral Resource Policy in a Watershed Year
It’s that time of the year again – Independence Day is upon us. This year, things are different, though. If you’re like us, it kind of snuck up on you, and it took seeing the booths selling fireworks...
View ArticleEurope Forges Ahead With Battery Gigafactory Buildout As U.S. Still Struggles...
The current coronavirus pandemic may have thrown a wrench into the gears of many industries, but — against the backdrop of skyrocketing materials supply needs in the context of the green energy...
View ArticleEvent Alert: Benchmark Webinar on Lithium Ion Battery, EV and Energy Storage...
Against the backdrop of a new presidential executive order declaring a critical minerals “national emergency” for the United States, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence will host its “Washington DC Summit...
View ArticleA Pivotal Moment to “Get Serious About Building the Domestic Mineral Supply...
Last month, U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order instructing his economic and national security teams to conduct a 100 day review of four key U.S. supply chains across federal agencies to...
View ArticlePodcast: Battery Tech Supply Chain Expert Simon Moores Discusses Lithium...
American Jobs Plan, Green New Deal … irrespective of whether these plans will get implemented fully or in part, the renewable energy transition is already here, and it’s here to stay. The renewable...
View ArticleARPN’s 2021 Word of the Year: Supply Chain
ARPN’s Year in Review — a Last Look Back at the United States’ Critical Mineral Resource Challenge in 2021 Well, two words, for the sticklers. Merriam Webster may have gone with “vaccine,” but for...
View ArticleThe DPA in the Context of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Chinese Strategy –...
Stressing that the “The United States depends on unreliable foreign sources for many of the strategic and critical materials necessary for the clean energy,” specifically for EV and large capacity...
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