Industrial Minerals


Lithium Americas targets 10,000 tpa lithium carbonate by 2015

19 June 2012

by John Ollett

Company to also produce 40,000 tpa potash from Argentinean brine deposit

Keywords: lithium, Argentina, Lithium Americas, Canada, Cauchari-Olaroz

Canada-based Lithium Americas Corp. will produce 10,000 tonnes lithium carbonate in 2015 and ramp up to 20,000 tpa by 2017, according to a new definitive feasibility study.

The company is also intending to produce 40,000 tpa potash, which it will start in 2017, from its brine pools for an estimated CAPEX of $45m.

“The next steps...