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 Successful gold mining starts with orebody quality says Barrick’s Mark Bristow If you start with a really underwhelming ore body, you’re never going to make any money
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 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 Bonus schemes play a role in tailings dams failures – research According to a paper in Resources Policy, such compensation packages actively encourage managers to cut costs and increase production regardless of the risks associated with those decisions.
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 10, 2019 Camino Minerals allowed to expand drilling in southern Peru Expanded drilling at the Chapitos gold-copper project is expected to commence during the latter half of 2019.
June 10, 2019 New Energy to acquire project near Codelco’s and BHP’s mines in Chile The project is located along the prolific West Fissure fault system, near the open-pit Escondida mine.
June 10, 2019 Swiss expert to start work on new standards for mining dam safety The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) has picked someone outside the industry to oversee an initiative aimed at setting new dam safety standards for miners.
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