The feasibility study for the plant is expected to be completed in the March quarter of 2025.

Tianqi holds about a 20% stake in SQM, which on Thursday told shareholders talks were ongoing with Codelco over a new lithium partnership.

The Canadian explorer has launched a structural targeting study at is Falcon West lithium property in Ontario.

In June last year, NMDC's unit Legacy Iron Ore signed a lithium exploration pact with Australia's Hancock Prospecting.

Miner plans to transfer to state-run copper producer Codelco its mining concessions and other rights in Chile's Maricunga salt flat.

Metso’s hydrometallurgical alkaline leach process is a simple and safe way to refine spodumene concentrate to battery-grade end product.

Deadline to set terms on a partnership extended from the end of this month.