August 20, 2018 Titanium miner Kenmare’s H1 profit surges on stronger Chinese demand Kenmare Resources' pretax profit for the first half of the year tripled as it shipped more finished products to China and other Asian markets.
August 17, 2018 Lithium price: Chile giant’s scorched earth strategy Playbook follows success in the iodine market
August 17, 2018 China’s CATL to start producing next-gen low-cobalt batteries in 2019 — source China's largest lithium battery maker will produce nickel-rich batteries, which are cheaper to make and have longer life-spans than cobalt-based ones.
August 16, 2018 Standard Lithium tries new approach to speed up production in Arkansas Canadian company is focused on unlocking the value of existing large-scale US based lithium bearing brine resources that can be brought into production quickly.
August 14, 2018 China’s Ganfeng grabs SQM’s stake in Argentinean lithium project The $87.5-million deal is the latest Chinese acquisition of a lithium project in South America, following Tianqi Lithium’s decision to buy 24% of SQM for $4.1 billion, which has not…
August 14, 2018 Lithium boom unlikely to disrupt potash market — analyst While lithium and potash are often found in the same deposits and mined together, the increasing number of projects aimed at producing the white metal shouldn’t have an impact in…
August 13, 2018 Auto industry’s use of lithium-ion batteries to grow seven-fold by 2025 The need to store electricity, generated by renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, will also help demand to grow, the Metal Bulletin says.
August 7, 2018 Chile lithium exports more than double in July from previous year The value of exports of the metal from Chile, one of the world's top producers of lithium, jumped 51 percent in the first seven months of the year.
August 1, 2018 Rio Tinto down despite $7.2bn cash return to investors Company said first-half profit grew 12% to $4.42 billion, below the $4.53 billion forecast by analysts.
July 31, 2018 Falling Chinese electric car production wrenches lithium price The world’s automakers “don’t worry about lithium supply anymore” – Simon Moores.
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