RANKED: World’s top 10 biggest lithium operations
Albemarle’s Greenbushes hard rock mine in Australia holds top spot.
Albemarle’s Greenbushes hard rock mine in Australia holds top spot.
Australia sees its booming lithium sector matching thermal coal’s importance within five years.
For 47 years, a chemicals producer in London’s commuter belt has been running a small lithium refinery that’s the only one of its kind in Europe.
The move would come as prices plunge on a significant slowdown in demand for EVs in China.
Sayona is targeting 226,000 tonnes per year of annual lithium concentrate production.
The former head of South Africa’s National Treasury has been tasked with cleaning up a scandal-dogged company that’s contemplating partnering a Chinese battery maker.
Korean researchers developed a new anode material that they believe can accelerate the commercialization of durable and lightweight lithium metal batteries.
Zimbabwe holds some of the world's biggest hard-rock lithium deposits and has recently attracted about $700 million in investment.
The investment in the Pilgan plant will help increase spodumene concentrate production by 47% to 1 million dry metric tonnes per annum.
MINING.COM’s EV Metal Index surged to just under $27 billion in 2022 thanks to surging lithium and nickel prices, but January saw a 50% month-on-month drop.