Chinese lithium producer Tianqi Lithium plans to establish a battery-grade lithium hydroxide project with capacity of 30,000 tonnes per year in Zhangjiagang, Suzhou in China’s Jiangsu province, the company said on Friday May 12

Tesla’s $1 billion project aims at increasing the carmaker efforts of producing battery-grade lithium hydroxide domestically in the United States to serve the growing North American e-mobility market, the company said

China’s lepidolite production on a lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) basis accounted for 12.2% of global lithium production in 2022 and is forecast to account for more than 15% of global lithium production in 2032

The US is lagging in its ability to collect and process lithium-ion batteries, contributing to a massive impending deficit in the domestic supply of lithium that is needed to meet demand for electric vehicles (EVs)

Global lithium miner Allkem and its peer Livent Corp have signed a definite agreement to combine in an all-stock merger

“We are probably underestimating the [lithium] demand from EV [electric vehicle] industry,” Kevin Chen, vice president commercial, APAC at major lithium producer Albemarle said on Fastmarkets’ Asian Battery Material Conference 2023

Codelco will continue to grow organically by developing its vast copper reserves and existing mining base instead of pursuing mergers and acquisitions (M&A)

Three key reasons to book your place at Fastmarkets' Lithium Supply and Battery Raw Materials 2023 conference in Las Vegas

Chile intends to nationalize its lithium resources, the country’s president, Gabriel Boric, said in a televised address to the country on Friday April 21

The steep drop in global spot lithium prices over the past few months has helped to drive record-high volumes of trade on the year-old lithium hydroxide contract on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), Fastmarkets heard on Wednesday April 12