Correction to rationales for lithium carbonate, lithium hydroxide spot prices CIF CJK on May 2

Fastmarkets has updated the rationales for its MB-LI-0029 lithium carbonate 99.5% Li2CO3 min, battery grade, spot prices cif China, Japan & Korea and its MB-LI-0033 lithium hydroxide monohydrate LiOH.H2O 56.5% LiOH min, battery grade, spot price cif China, Japan & Korea, which initially lacked information on future pricing dates due to a reporter error on May 2.

The rationales have been updated to include the following information: Owing to a UK public holiday on May 5, the Lithium carbonate cif China, Japan & Korea price and Lithium hydroxide cif China, Japan & Korea price will next be published on May 6.

This is in accordance with Fastmarkets’ pricing schedule.

These prices are part of Fastmarkets’ Industrial Minerals package.

The published price is unaffected by this change.

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 Ewan Thomson by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Ewan Thomson re: lithium carbonate 99.5% Li2CO3 min, battery grade, spot prices cif China, Japan & Korea and lithium hydroxide monohydrate LiOH.H2O 56.5% LiOH min, battery grade, spot price cif China, Japan & Korea.”

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

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