Global lithium-ion battery capacity to rise five-fold by 2030

The project, which straddles salt flats and lakes across 135 square miles near the Chilean border, is billed as having high concentrations of lithium.

Metal bulletin reasearch’s forecast is for the lithium market to shift into a supply surplus this year and as such we have expected prices to fall.

Dyson Ltd., best known for its vacuum cleaners and hand dryers, is charging ahead with a 2-billion-pound effort to start building electric cars.

The Goulamina mine is one of the world’s largest undeveloped high-grade lithium deposits and will represent 15% of the current global lithium supply.

Ganfeng Lithium Co Ltd has filed for a Hong Kong stock market flotation, betting on a rise in demand for lithium as electric cars become more mainstream.

Being home to Europe’s biggest rock collection has finally come in handy for Sweden

In Chile, threats of a government crackdown on over-usage of water often ring hollow. Mines need water, and the country´s copper-driven economy needs mines.

Over the next few years, the lithium sector in Western Australia will benefit from project expenditure of several billion dollars.

Announcement is nothing but good news to battery metals miners, which have seen demand for their mined commodities soar in the past year.