Chile says Japanese battery and metals companies are among Asian investors interested in acquiring long-term preferential access to lithium.

Researchers emphasized that many mines set to close soon don't have plans for future operations or transitioning to a post-coal economy.

ERG said it would sell 3,000 metric tons of contained cobalt metal a year to EVelution.

Eramet aims to start producing lithium in Argentina in the second quarter of next year.

The government also set the royalty for niobium at 3% of the average sale price, and for rare earth elements at 1% of the average sale price of rare earth oxide.

Piedmont will acquire a 19.9% interest in Vinland Lithium, which owns Killick Lithium.

Tecpetrol SA is giving shareholders in Alpha Lithium until Oct. 20 to accept a “best and final offer” that’s worth $210 million to $230 million.

Under the draft CRMA, strategic mine projects would have to get permits within 24 months.