June 11, 2019

Albemarle details efforts to boost its Chilean lithium output by 30%

The company described a process that evokes the industry standard of using a series of evaporation ponds.

June 11, 2019

Chile to push both private and public investment in lithium

The country produced 96,053 tonnes of the white metal, which is used to make electric vehicle batteries, in 2018.

June 11, 2019

Europe researches, miners work on social licence to operate framework

European nations are working on making sure the new wave of resource exploitation applies lessons learned from countries such as Canada and Australia.

June 11, 2019

MGX and Eureka to install world’s first commercial rapid petrolithium recovery system

The system will be deployed at Eureka’s Standing Stone advanced wastewater treatment facility in Pennsylvania.

June 11, 2019

Saving the earth with electric cars means wrecking a fragile desert

Extracting Atacama’s lithium means pumping large amounts of water and churning up salty mud known as brine—and that’s having an irreversible impact on the local environment.

June 11, 2019

Albemarle declines to participate in LME lithium contract

The LME said in a statement to Reuters that it respects the right of companies to operate in whatever ways best suit their needs.

June 10, 2019

Tianqi says happy ‘for now’ with stake in SQM

Tianqi last December bought a 23.8 percent share in SQM from Canadian fertilizer company Nutrien for $4.1B, the largest deal in history for a lithium asset.

June 10, 2019

London Metal Exchange and Fastmarkets to set lithium price benchmark

The exchange will work Fastmarkets to provide the reference price lithium, a key component in the batteries that power electric vehicles and high-tech devices.

June 7, 2019

Sweden eyes Peru’s lithium

According to Sweden's Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade and Promotion, the country has become lithium-thirsty due to an increase in demand for electric cars.

June 5, 2019

Estimated 5 million tonnes of lithium deposits found in southwest China

The find potentially curbs the nation's reliance on imports of the material used in electric vehicle batteries.