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Delayed publication of Chinese battery-grade lithium hydroxide, lithium carbonate price averages

The publication of Fastmarkets’ weekly and February monthly average for MB-LI-0040 lithium hydroxide monohydrate LiOH.H2O 56.5% LiOH min, battery grade, spot price range exw domestic China and MB-LI-0036 lithium carbonate 99.5% Li2CO3 min, battery grade, spot price range exw domestic China were delayed because of a back-end calculation error.

March 4, 2025
Lithium Pricing notice

The February monthly average and weekly averages between February 15 and 28 for the two prices (MB-LI-0040 and MB-LI-0036) were not calculated because of the error. This delay did not affect the publication of the actual daily assessments.

Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated.

These prices are a part of Fastmarkets’ industrial minerals package.

For more information or to provide feedback on the delayed publication of these averages or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to these prices, please contact Justin Yang by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Justin Yang, re: China lithium averages.”

Please indicate if comments are confidential. Fastmarkets will consider all comments received and will make comments not marked as confidential available upon request.

To see all Fastmarkets pricing methodology and specification documents, go to https://www.fastmarkets.com/methodology.

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