US miners irked that Pentagon mineral stockpile plan bypasses them

No surprise who the winner is.

China is home to the majority of the world's lithium processing facilities and sucks up most output of top producer Australia.

It produced 4,600 tonnes of lithium more than Chile in 2017 boosted mainly by record output at Mt Cattlin and Mt Marion mines.

CITIC Metal will own 20% of the Canadian miner, which makes its biggest shareholder.

The battery cell maker is working on the first section of the factory, in Skellefteå in the north of Sweden, which will be completed in 2020 and produce eight gigawatt cell capacity per year.

The exchange said in March that any launch of a new cobalt contract would not be until the end of 2018 or early 2019.

The companies are committed to explore for mineral deposits first in the Asian country and then the rest of the world .

Lithium, copper and nickel.

Third of seven ocean campaigns, Co-sponsored with Maersk, retrieves thousands of polymetallic nodules from top of ocean floor.