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February 2019
20 February 2019
China’s output and sales of new energy vehicles (NEVs) has stayed on an uptrend in early 2019. China’s lithium prices were steady in a quiet market, however, with most major buyers taking a watchful attitude to the market.
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19 February 2019
Brine dilution due to rainfall kept production at Orocobre’s Olaroz lithium facility similar year on year, although ramp-ups continue at the Argentine site.
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19 February 2019
Producer Livent has announced its intention to resume the lithium carbonate contract arbitration process with miner Nemaska that was started in July 2018.
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18 February 2019
Ahead of Fastmarkets’ Battery Materials 2019 conference in Shanghai, our lithium reporters talk about the hottest topics in the lithium industry in China and the Asian market.
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15 February 2019
Nemaska Lithium will require an additional C$375 million to cover the installation and indirect costs of a new lithium mine and processing plant in Quebec.
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15 February 2019
China’s domestic lithium spot market showed limited buying activity with prices unchanged in the first week after the Lunar New Year holiday, while transportation of lithium compounds has resumed and more market participants are due to return after the Lantern Festival next week.
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15 February 2019
Trade log for battery-grade lithium carbonate in China including trades, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.
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13 February 2019
Lithium producer Livent's revenue and income rose year on year supported by growth in global sales of electric vehicles.
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08 February 2019
Key data from the February 7 pricing session in London.
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06 February 2019
Japan’s Panasonic is considering investing in the upstream part of the battery raw materials industry in order to have better oversight of quality, pricing and supply chain responsibility, a company executive said.
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05 February 2019
Automaker Ford Motor Co has no current plans to take stakes in mining assets or secure direct offtake agreements with mining firms in order to produce batteries for electric vehicles, although it hasn’t ruled it out entirely.
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04 February 2019
Australia has given regulatory approval for Chinese company Ganfeng to purchase Neometals’ stake in the Mount Marion lithium spodumene project.
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January 2019
31 January 2019
The Chinese market has veered away from NCM811 batteries in electric vehicles, with them used predominantly in consumer goods in 2019.
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31 January 2019
Earthworks at the Kemerton lithium hydroxide project in Western Australia began early in January, and it is on schedule to be producing material in 2021.
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31 January 2019
Australian lithium producer Alliance Mineral has established a new offtake agreement and pricing strategy for spodumene produced at Bald Hill in Western Australia.
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31 January 2019
Trade log for battery-grade lithium carbonate in China including trades, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.
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30 January 2019
Australia’s Neometals produced 15.33% less lithium spodumene in the final quarter of last year despite selling more material.
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29 January 2019
Galaxy Resources produced and sold more lithium spodumene in the fourth quarter of 2018 but also reported lower average cash margins.
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28 January 2019
Pilbara Minerals reached a strong production ramp-up at its Pilgangoora lithium-tantalum mine in Western Australia.
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25 January 2019
China’s domestic spot battery-grade lithium carbonate price weakened on Thursday January 24 after some suppliers sold at lower levels to boost cash flow ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, while the battery-grade lithium hydroxide price in China and those in the rest of the world were unchanged.
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25 January 2019
The uncertainty caused by the current geopolitical climate may only be temporary, but it could affect activity in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in metals and mining into 2019, according to a report by consultancy firm PwC.
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21 January 2019
Transamine will provide $9.5 million to finance the Kamativi Tailings Lithium Project in exchange for an offtake of the lithium concentrate produced there.
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21 January 2019
Orocobre’s production and sales were up in the December quarter while prices achieved were lower than forecast.
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18 January 2019
Lithium producer Orocobre has appointed Martín Pérez de Solay its new chief executive officer, replacing Richard Seville.
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18 January 2019
China’s domestic spot battery-grade lithium carbonate and hydroxide prices were unchanged week on week on Thursday January 17 due to slow market activity ahead of Chinese New Year, while technical and Industrial grade lithium carbonate prices moved down slightly on supplier destocking.
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15 January 2019
Alliance Mineral has revised the pricing mechanism of its lithium offtake agreement with Burwill Lithium and dropped exclusivity rights to its material to seek an additional offtake partner.
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14 January 2019
China's 2019 new energy vehicle (NEV) subsidy policy is still being worked out, and the general principle is to avoid large fluctuations in the industry after all NEV subsidies cease in 2021.
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11 January 2019
Technical and industrial lithium-carbonate grade prices decreased on lower achieved deals, while the rest of the world’s markets were unmoved from last week.
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10 January 2019
Lower lithium prices in China drove a 1,500% rise in the country’s exports at the end of 2018.
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09 January 2019
Earthworks have begun on schedule for the development of the Kemerton lithium hydroxide project in Western Australia, Albemarle says.
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09 January 2019
The penetration of nickel-cobalt-manganese (NCM) type-811 batteries into the Chinese electric vehicle (EV) industry will be quite limited in 2019, market participants have told Fastmarkets.
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08 January 2019
Chile-based lithium and iodine miner SQM confirms the installation of Ricardo Ramos Rodrigues as chief executive officer, replacing Patricio de Solminihac Tampier.
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07 January 2019
The growing role of China as a major producer and consumer of lithium has made the market for the product a more complex space. But the industry agrees that higher levels of lithium demand are here to stay, and will keep prices from dipping much further, despite recent lows.
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04 January 2019
The Chinese domestic spot battery-grade lithium carbonate price was unchanged this week, while Chinese lithium hydroxide and seaborne battery grade lithium carbonate prices fell on deals done at lower levels.
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03 January 2019
A round-up of the year’s main events in the global lithium market.