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January 2019
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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18 January 2019
Trade log for battery-grade lithium carbonate in China including trades, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.
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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.