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The Quebec plant was commissioned in June and produced its first ton of spodumene concentrate in July.

Western Australia is the world’s biggest exporter of lithium.

SK On will also explore additional business opportunities in the battery value chain, such as mining minerals.

Peru currently produces no lithium and no country in Latin America produces lithium batteries at a commercial scale even if they do mine lithium.

Lithium consumption needed “to surge way above anything that’s planned to be mined,” says minerals chief Sinead Kaufman.

Finland has thus far not collected taxes on minerals but the government now proposes introducing a royalty of 0.6% on the taxable value of metallic minerals.