February 20, 2022 New project to investigate if California’s Lithium Valley is world’s largest brine source of lithium A $1.2 million project has been launched to both quantify and characterize the lithium resource in the Salton Sea geothermal field in California.
February 18, 2022 Lithium prices rise on tight supply, strong China demand Chinese market participants were surprised that prices continued to rise rapidly after the recent Lunar New Year holidays.
February 18, 2022 Brazil’s Minas Gerais state to sell stake in lithium miner The mining state is looking to sell its 33% holding in CBL, Brazil’s only producer of lithium carbonate and hydroxide.
February 18, 2022 Global EV sales jumped in 2021, as did deployment of high nickel battery chemistries Adamas Intelligence reports that 54% of battery capacity deployed onto roads globally in new plug-in electric vehicles was powered by high nickel cathode chemistries.
February 17, 2022 France should start mining lithium at home, minister says Almost all the critical minerals currently come from outside the continent, with China dominating the global supply chain.
February 16, 2022 Albemarle slides most ever on forecast letdown amid lithium boom The world’s largest miner of the metal raised its 2022 outlook, but investors were left wanting more.
February 16, 2022 Codelco to start lithium exploration in March Chilean state-owned mining firm received an environmental permit to develop Salar de Maricunga.
February 16, 2022 China scientists discover huge lithium deposit in Everest region The hard-rock resource has the potential to host the third-biggest mine of its kind in China, according to ScienceNet.cn.
February 16, 2022 Tesla secures 5-year lithium supply from Liontown Australia's Liontown Resources will provide the EV giant with more 100,000 tonnes of lithium spodumene concentrate a year, starting in 2024.
February 16, 2022 VW set to boost output, pick new EV plant site, amid chip crunch It plans build a new state-of-the-art car factory close to its headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany, to raise its game as electric-vehicle rival Tesla TSLA.O builds a plant near Berlin.
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