Newly created Critical Metals on track to construct EU’s first battery-grade lithium mine 

The company pushed back the opening of a key expansion of its lithium operations in northern Argentina to next year.

Both countries need to build up their mining and refining, and battery making capacity quickly.

Half of the output from Ghana’s Ewoyaa mine is earmarked for a refinery that Piedmont Lithium plans to construct in Tennessee.

The iron ore-lithium miner has raised its stake in Wildcat Resources to 19.85%.

The new MRE contains 5.53 million tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent in the measured and indicated category.

Hancock joins BHP and Rio Tinto in flagging red tape around mining projects as hurting Australia's drive to secure major investment.

It has secured rights over an additional 536sq.km in one of the largest and highest-grade lithium areas in North America.

Last week, Zijin Mining said joint venture Manono Lithium SAS was granted rights over the northeast tenement of the Manono mine.

"There is a willingness to invest, especially in critical minerals," German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told reporters.