USA Rare Earth hopes to raise up to $500m in IPO

The world's top miner is said to have hired Goldman Sachs to assist with the sale of the Western Australia-based nickel operation.

The Competition Commission of India green-lighted the $4.1 billion deal reached in May between the Canadian potash giant and China’s Tianqi Lithium.

The country's antitrust regulator is investigating the effects on the market of Chinese miner Tianqi Lithium acquisition of a 24% stake in SQM, the world's second largest lithium producer,

No surprise who the winner is.

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

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

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

SQM has retained former chairman Julio Ponce as an adviser despite an agreement to distance himself from the firm to end a long-running royalties dispute.