March 23, 2023 Chile’s top steel producer bets on green hydrogen CAP’s steelmaking division aims to substitute coal used in its blast furnaces with less polluting fuels, including hydrogen.
March 22, 2023 Albemarle to build $1.3 billion lithium plant in South Carolina Lithium miner chose Chester County as the location for a processing plant it hopes will cement its status as a cornerstone of the rapidly growing US electric vehicle industry.
March 22, 2023 Chile pushes new lithium extraction method in risk to future supply Chile’s government plans to require all new lithium projects to tap a production technique that’s barely used commercially anywhere in a bid to reduce water losses.
March 22, 2023 Argentine mining exports hit 10-year high as lithium, EVs take off In 2022, lithium exports surged 234% from a year earlier.
March 22, 2023 Huayou starts trial production at Zimbabwe lithium mine, invests in Namibian project The Arcadia mine is expected to produce 50,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent lithium concentrate.
March 21, 2023 E3 Lithium expands resource of Bashaw, Canada’s largest brine project The sprawling Bashaw district between Calgary and Edmonton now hosts 6.6 million measured tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent.
March 21, 2023 Lithium prices in China halve in just four months Lithium supply is heading for a major increase this year as a wave of expansions and new projects get up and running.
March 21, 2023 Electric vehicle battery makers test a future without lithium Sodium-ion has the potential to complement lithium-ion cells and help fill gaps in the global market.
March 20, 2023 Former director of Tesla Australia sentenced for insider trading The Australian Securities and Investments Commission found that Kurt Schlosser purchased shares in Piedmont after being informed of details of a five-year spodumene concentrate supply agreement.
March 19, 2023 Peru expects 74 mining projects to become operative in 2023 30 of the 74 projects have recently become operative or are about to reach that phase as they already have all the required permits.
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