Benchmark Mineral Intelligence – Charm

EV supply chain data firm Benchmark Mineral trims workforce, sources say

Cs news4 months ago03 mins

(Reuters) -Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, a UK-based pricing and data research firm for energy transition minerals, has cut at least a fifth of its workforce in recent weeks, said three people familiar with the company. The 11-year-old firm had been rapidly expanding over the last couple of years alongside growing market interest in lithium, copper and…

How China used rare earths and the US playbook to turn on the chip tap again

Cs news7 months ago02 mins

Rare earths are needed for everything from consumer electronics to electric vehicles, wind turbines and fighter jets – and China controls the supply chain. In the third of a four-part series, we look at how Beijing’s dominance in the critical minerals is matching up to Washington’s lead in artificial intelligence, as well as how they…