The company in March announced an ambitious plan to increase its production capacity roughly fivefold to 600,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent a year.
Daniel Jadue, the current front-runner in polls for November’s elections in Chile, wants to align mining rules with Peru, Argentina and Bolivia so they don’t compete for investments.
China’s state planner on Wednesday renewed its pledge to step up monitoring of commodity prices and strengthen supervision of spot and futures markets.
Gazprombank put it at $5.1-billion to $6.6-billion, while Renaissance sees it at $5.4-billion to $6.3-billion, Reuters sources said, adding books were expected to open on June 21 and close on June 29.