The investment is expected to increase the maximum production capacity at Pilgangoora to 680,000 tpa of spodumene concentrate.

Company to supply lithium spodumene from its flagship Kathleen Valley project in Western Australia.

Project will launch North America’s first local spodumene concentrate production.

Albemarle is in the process of restarting its Kings Mountain mine in North Carolina, reviving an operation that was idled in the 1980s.

China's biggest cobalt refiner acquired the hard-rock Arcadia lithium mine just outside Harare for $422 million earlier this year.

A big source of capital for the critical minerals sector this year is coming from large corporations like BHP and Rio Tinto.

The plans for a plant with 100,000 tonnes of annual capacity are a bullish bet on the future of American lithium demand.

Across markets, there’s growing talk that high prices for raw materials will be cured only by recessions in the second half.