It warned that total sales volume would more than halve for the period.

Although the United States continues to hold the largest gold reserves, China and Russia have emerged as the top buyers.

The EIA approval allows for a 24,000-tonne-per-year battery-grade lithium carbonate production facility to be built and operated on Pastos Grandes.

Ocean floor mining a "sustainability conundrum", report says.

The Canadian miner is working on a series of strategies to be applied at the Elon property and the McGee property.

The Australian miner would supply a minimum of 60,000 tonnes of the metal.

Top producers SQM and Albemarle said output nonetheless remained unscathed.