Correction to assessment for lithium carbonate 99.5% Li2CO3 min, battery grade, spot price range, exw domestic China

Fastmarkets has corrected the assessment of the lithium carbonate 99.5% Li2CO3 min, battery grade, spot price range, exw domestic China, which was published incorrectly on Tuesday April 22 due to a typographical error.

The price was incorrectly published as 68,000-685,000 yuan per tonne on Tuesday. That has now been corrected to 68,000-68,500 yuan per tonne.

Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated to reflect this change.

This price is part of the Fastmarkets’ industrial minerals package.

For more information, or to provide feedback on this correction notice, or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to this price, please contact Zihao Li by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Zihao Li, re: lithium carbonate 99.5% Li2CO3 min, battery grade, spot price range, exw domestic China.”

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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