Chile keeps faith in lithium expansion even as glut worsens
The government is confident that investors will compete for licenses to drill new deposits even amid a worsening global glut.
Moderately lower base metals, molybdenum, uranium and silver prices more than offset stronger gold, potash and cobalt prices in May, lowering the Scotiabank Commodity Price Index by 2.3% last month.
LME copper prices eased from US$4.30 per pound in April to $4.05 per pound in May “and are still exceptionally lucrative at US$4.08 in late June,” noted Scotiabank economist Patricia Mohr.
