Industrial Minerals


Lithium Americas starts up lithium carbonate pilot plant

08 November 2011

by Mark Watts

Canada plant to be shipped to Argentina project site after testing period

Keywords: Lithium Americas, lithium carbonate, lithium, potash, borates, boron

Lithium Americas Corp. has started the pilot production of lithium carbonate in Canada in preparation for its full-scale Cauchari-Olaroz project in Argentina.

The Canada-based company hired SGS Minerals Services to build the plant in Lakefield, Ontario, designed...