ANIMATION: Race is on for global lithium mining domination
Visualize the world's top lithium producing countries since 2012 and forecasts for winners and losers out to 2031.
Frik Els , Editor
Frik has 20 years’ experience as a business journalist across a range of industries including automotive, technology and entertainment markets. Frik has an entry in Global Mining Observer’s Who’s Who of Mining 2018, and contributions to publications and conferences including Business Insider, Investing.com, Mines & Money London and New York, Vancouver Resources Investment, Progressive Mine Forum in Toronto and Canadian Mining Symposium in London, UK. He’s been interviewed on CBC Radio and Korea State TV and quoted in the Financial Post.
Posts by Frik Els:
Fitch: Copper price to regain March peaks in 2027
Research company slashes its 2023 copper price forecast and predicts a return to $10,000-plus levels only in 2027 as long term structural deficits emerge.
Forget rare earths, boron is the critical mineral to track
Two companies mine 85% of all boron. China holds a near monopoly on downstream processing. Now a California mine wants to break open this opaque market.
Chile, Codelco face another lost decade of output growth
World's no.1 producer Codelco’s annual copper production is set to fall 400,000 tonnes below its peak while Chile’s output is back to levels last seen in 2004.
Tesla’s battery metals bill balloons to $100 billion
Raw material costs have more than doubled since Elon Musk said Tesla will produce 20 million vehicles per year before 2030.
Two charts show copper price drop may have been overdone
Copper is China's only growing commodity import in 2022 as the country’s inventories drop 60% in a year and worldwide stocks decline to just 3.5 days consumption.
Top 50 mining companies power through Iran war – up $250 billion in 2026
The world’s 50 biggest mining stocks shrug off global turmoil hitting a combined $2.4 trillion value in Q1, but the tide did not lift all boats.