News of lithium

Eramet buys out Tsingshan from Argentina lithium project

24-10-2024 17:50 French miner Eramet SA to buy back Tsingshan Holding Group Co’s stake in an Argentinian lithium project

Rio Tinto arrives in lithium with a survival-of-the-fittest mentality

10-10-2024 07:58 Rio Tinto has assumed a survival-of-the-fittest mentality in the lithium industry – as prices have fallen, it has sought to buyout a once coveted producer at a steep discount.

Argentina bullish on lithium amid increase in production

10-09-2024 16:54 Lithium production in Argentina rose 56 percent in July year-on-year; Officials confident of investment despite drop in prices of metal, eye production of 80,000 tonnes by late 2024.

YPF eyes sale of lithium unit as focus narrows on shale ramp-up

31-08-2024 17:12 State-run oil company YPF SA is considering a sale of its lithium unit as part of a sweeping divestment strategy to streamline investments into Vaca Muerta shale patch.

New lithium plant inaugurated in Salta Province

03-07-2024 22:41 French mining group Eramet and its Chinese partner Tsingshan inaugurate new lithium exploitation plant, an investment worth US$870 million.

Argentina is about to unleash a wave of lithium in a global glut

30-06-2024 09:06 Four new projects will finally begin to churn out lithium in the weeks and months ahead. That will almost double production capacity in Argentina, whose growth potential has long lured the attention of battery makers around the world.

Who wants to ‘exploit’ Argentina?

30-03-2024 06:43 The business establishment, here and abroad, are keeping a close eye on whether Milei and his team can deliver on governance – and whether they can do it soon.

by Marcelo J. García

Chile unveils lithium salt flats it plans to lease to private companies

27-03-2024 14:36 Chile unveiled salt flats that will be opened up to lithium mining as part of a plan to double production of the battery metal over the next decade under a new public-private model.

Debt, inflation and the peso: Argentina's election worries

17-10-2023 12:27 As Argentines head to the polls on October 22 for a crucial presidential election, candidates have campaigned hard on proposed elixirs for the country's economic ills.

Billionaire Paolo Rocca has a Plan B for lithium if alpha bid fails

11-10-2023 08:10 Billionaire Paolo Rocca’s oil drilling unit will enter the lithium business one way or another.

Lithium players race for breakthrough to meet electric car demand

30-08-2023 11:50 Dozens of firms aim to prove sceptics wrong as they push ahead with new lithium extraction methods.

China’s Zijin is in talks with Argentina to turn lithium into battery cathode

11-07-2023 17:46 China’s Zijin Mining Group is in advanced talks to build a plant in Catamarca that will turn some of the nation’s huge lithium reserves into cathodes used to make electric-vehicle batteries.

Argentina’s growing lithium industry hits export records

17-06-2023 13:50 Argentina's lithium industry hit a record high with exports rising to US$60 million in May, up 17% from the same month a year ago.

India supports Argentina’s bid to join BRICS, says ambassador

03-06-2023 06:15 India’s envoy in Argentina, Dinesh Bhatia, discusses trade deficits, defence opportunities, lithium and gas collaboration and the importance of cultural ties.

by Api Dhadda

US$10.6-billion lithium deal to create world’s number three producer

10-05-2023 13:43 Two lithium-producing firms active in Argentina announce merger; Allkem and Livent, which operate in Catamarca and Jujuy, launch new US$10.6-billion firm.

Eduardo Porter: LatAm’s new lithium bounty unearths old problem

08-05-2023 11:31 From Mexico to Chile, governments still haven’t cracked the code on how to leverage natural resources into sustained, broad-based prosperity.