Lithium latest news

• May 2022

  China’s battery raw materials exports in April 2022

  23 May 2022

  A summary of China’s battery raw materials exports for April 2022, according to the country’s latest customs data. By Yingchi Yang, Sybil Pan, Carrie Shi, Zihao Li.

• Albemarle increases exposure to variable pricing to boost 2022 sales

  06 May 2022

  United States-based lithium and bromine miner Albemarle has been working for more than a year to increase the proportion of its supply contracts that are linked to variable pricing because it wants to “move with the market,” company officials said during an earnings call on Thursday May 5.

• April 2022

  Junior miner Lake Resources, carmaker Ford sign MoU for lithium offtake

  11 April 2022

  Australia-based miner Lake Resources has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with US carmaker Ford for the offtake of about 25,000 tonnes per year of lithium from the miner’s Kachi project in Argentina, it said on Monday April 11.

• MARLB to restart Train 2 at Wodgina spodumene mine in July

  05 April 2022

  Lithium producers Mineral Resources and Albemarle will speed up the resumption of spodumene production at the Wodgina site in Australia, which the two companies own as part of the MARLB joint venture, they announced on Tuesday April 5.