SRK Consulting unpacks critical opportunities and challenges facing the African mining sector

The 2,932-hectare project encompasses a full salar.

Last year, the Canadian developer arranged $1.1 billion financing for its Whabouchi lithium project.

Canada's mining sector is going through dramatic change, but the industry remains bullish on growth, and miners increasingly believe innovation and advances in technology will reshape the industry.

The company foresees strong long-term demand for lithium but offered a short-term prognosis clouded by the entry of new projects into the market and slowing growth of demand.

The Chilean government will actively be seeking investors for 25 new mining projects when it attends the PDAC Convention in Toronto next week.

The two-year MGX-UBC research program has an initial goal of creating a hybrid silicon-graphite anode that will not require industry retooling.

The company is close to making a decision on developing Mina do Barroso mine, which could become the first European supplier of spodumene, a lithium-bearing mineral.

Wetlands have been dried out, the environment has been damaged, for the salt flat and for local communities, it is already too late.

Ernst & Young’s Canadian Mining Eye index, which tracks the performance of 100 Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange mid-tier and junior miners — dropped 2% in the last quarter of 2018.