The project would have been one of the biggest US sources of metals needed to build electric vehicle batteries and other clean energy technologies.

Ghana's Minerals Income Investment Fund will buy a 6% stake in Atlantic Lithium's projects in the country.

A final calculated LC purity of 99.59% lithium carbonate equivalent was attained through the new optimized leach process.

That puts the project in the northern Montalegre area near the Spanish border and with a planned investment of 650 million euros.

The group will raise its copper output in Democratic Republic of Congo to 600,000 metric tons next year.

The request was made when Indonesian President Joko Widodo met with US Vice President Kamala Harris this week.

Prince Mohammed bin Salman is prepared to pour billions of dollars into tapping the more than $1.3 trillion of metals his government says is buried in the country.

Vale is exploring a copper mine, comparable to massive Grasberg site.