March 22, 2024

Tianqi seeks shareholder voting power in SQM-Codelco deal

Tianqi holds about a 20% stake in SQM, which on Thursday told shareholders talks were ongoing with Codelco over a new lithium partnership.

March 22, 2024

Volta Metals to dig deep into fresh lithium discoveries

The Canadian explorer has launched a structural targeting study at is Falcon West lithium property in Ontario.

March 22, 2024

India’s NMDC looking at lithium assets in Africa and Australia

In June last year, NMDC's unit Legacy Iron Ore signed a lithium exploration pact with Australia's Hancock Prospecting.

March 21, 2024

SQM doubles down on lithium boom as peers go on the defensive

On the edge of Chile’s Atacama Desert, one of the world’s biggest lithium refineries is about to get a lot bigger.

March 21, 2024

SQM updates shareholders over delayed Codelco lithium deal

Miner plans to transfer to state-run copper producer Codelco its mining concessions and other rights in Chile's Maricunga salt flat.

March 21, 2024

Metso’s sustainable lithium hydroxide process joins list of Planet Positive technologies

Metso’s hydrometallurgical alkaline leach process is a simple and safe way to refine spodumene concentrate to battery-grade end product.

March 20, 2024

SQM, Codelco agree to extend deadline on tie-up terms to the end of May

Deadline to set terms on a partnership extended from the end of this month.

March 20, 2024

CleanTech Lithium’s pilot plant in Chile starts operations

The first production of eluate was completed in the past week, and it will be shipped to North America.

March 19, 2024

Sigma Lithium receives letter of arbitration from LG Energy Solution

LG Energy alleges that Sigma is in breach of certain provisions in connection to a lithium supply agreement entered in 2021.

March 19, 2024

Rio Tinto to invest $350 million in Argentina lithium project

Rio is working to begin production by the end of the year at Rincon.