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Lithium

  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    UK leaders court US investors

    Asset managers fret over lost gains as investor cash piles up on the sidelines

  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    Rio Tinto-backed start-up seeks funds for lithium breakthrough to cut reliance on China

    Analysts say new techniques could double production of key battery material and have similar impact to shale on oil sector

    Wide view of brine piles drying in an evaporation pond
  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    World’s biggest lithium producer urges state help to compete with China

    US-based Albemarle cuts expansion plans amid struggles for processor of key mineral for electric cars

    Sacks of lithium carbonate at an Albemarle processing facility in Chile
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    Serbia
    Serbia pledges lithium to European carmakers

    Despite Chinese interest, president says he is ‘loyal’ to EU as he hosts German chancellor in Belgrade

    Aleksandar Vučić
  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    Serbia set to give green light to Rio Tinto lithium mine

    Exploitation of one of the world’s largest deposits of the metal would boost Europe’s electric vehicle industry

  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Special ReportInvesting in Minas Gerais
    Brazil’s lithium makes its presence known with silvery-white promise

    Minas Gerais deposits of the mineral are turning a once forlorn region of the state into a prospecting hotspot

    A conveyor belt loaded with gravel running through a large industrial mining site with various machinery and structures in the background, all secured by bright yellow safety barriers
  • Wednesday, 10 April, 2024
    News in-depthSociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA
    China’s Tianqi Lithium’s $4bn bet on Chile at risk of backfiring

    Strategy is at risk as President Gabriel Boric’s government works to take back control of resources

    Brine ponds and processing areas of a lithium mine
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Albemarle Corp
    Top lithium producer Albemarle downgrades 2030 demand forecast as EV shift slows

    Chinese consumer shift to smaller battery cars that need less of the metal is also expected to cut usage

    Lithium brine evaporation ponds at Albemarle’s lithium mine in Silver Peak, US
  • Thursday, 25 January, 2024
    News in-depth
    Lithium price plunges on slowing Chinese demand for electric vehicles

    Miners slash costs and scale back plans to increase production after battery metal’s price plummets more than 80% in 12 months

    Ore falls from a conveyor on to a stockpile at the Bald Hill lithium mine site outside Widgiemooltha, Australia
  • Sunday, 14 January, 2024
    News in-depthElectric vehicles
    Chinese carmaker BYD held talks with lithium producer in Brazil

    Group is hunting for lithium assets in the country with aim of assembling an integrated supply chain

    BYD is also planning to build an EV factory in Hungary and has been in talks for a plant in Mexico
  • Thursday, 28 December, 2023
    Chile
    Chile’s Codelco to control new lithium venture with miner SQM

    Partnership is first step in President Gabriel Boric’s national strategy for battery metal

    An SQM lithium mine in Chile’s Atacama Desert
  • Tuesday, 19 December, 2023
    Gina Rinehart and Chile’s SQM to buy lithium miner Azure

    $1.1bn deal comes after Australian billionaire thwarts Liontown takeover

    A picture of Gina Rinehart
  • Monday, 4 December, 2023
    Energy sector
    The deflation of ‘greenflation’

    I like it, I’m not gonna crack

  • Monday, 27 November, 2023
    Mining tycoons battle over lithium’s ‘corridor of power’ in Australia

    Local billionaires disrupt consolidation as industry positions itself for boom in mineral vital to electric cars

    A desert tract near Kalgoorlie, best known for Australia’s largest open-pit gold mine
  • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
    Batteries
    Northvolt in new sodium-ion battery breakthrough

    Swedish start-up has developed an energy storage technology with no critical minerals including lithium which could minimise reliance on China

    People work on Northvolt sodium-ion cells
  • Monday, 20 November, 2023
    28 min
    Inside the global race for lithium batteries | FT Film

    Lithium is the 'new oil' of the clean energy era, crucial to the production of batteries for electric vehicles

    FT Moral Money: The Lithium Mining Race
  • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
    Energy sector
    UK geothermal developer seeks £600mn to expand into lithium in Cornwall

    GEL joins race to cash in on region’s mining revival

  • Monday, 13 November, 2023
    ExxonMobil
    Exxon to begin producing lithium to feed surging battery demand

    Oil producer has acquired rights to 120,000 acres of land in Arkansas as part of big strategic pivot

    A VW electric SUV
  • Friday, 27 October, 2023
    Gina Rinehart takes second strategic stake in Australian lithium sector

    Billionaire acquires 18% of Azure Minerals after Chile’s SQM announces planned buyout

    A geologist holds a rock containing spodumene, a lithium raw material
  • Monday, 16 October, 2023
    LexHancock Prospecting Pty Ltd
    Gina Rinehart/Liontown: dabble trouble as Albemarle quits bid

    Hancock Prospecting has little but capital to offer, when an understanding of processing and refining is required

    Gina Rinehart
  • Monday, 16 October, 2023
    Albemarle Corp
    Albemarle abandons Australian lithium deal after Gina Rinehart builds stake

    US company has walked away from a $4.2bn takeover of Liontown citing ‘growing complexities’

    Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart
  • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
    Hancock Prospecting Pty Ltd
    Australia’s richest person raises stake in lithium producer, threatening $4.3bn takeover

    Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting is muscling in on Albemarle’s mine proposal

    Gina Rinehart smiles in a portrait picture
  • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
    Lex
    China lithium: falling prices do not mean falling margins Premium content

    Long-term demand for electric vehicles and the batteries that power them should deter panic selling

    A lithium battery factory in Yichang, China
  • Friday, 8 September, 2023
    Mining
    Glencore to expand DRC exposure as it pushes into lithium

    The deal means the trading giant will be able to choose which clients receive the vital metal

    The sun sets on one of the open pit copper mines at Mutanda Mining in DRC
  • Monday, 4 September, 2023
    LexAlbemarle Corp
    Albemarle/Liontown: US lithium producer willing to pay up down under Premium content

    If the chemical group’s bid for the Australian company goes ahead, it will be one of the biggest lithium mining deals to date

    Aerial view of pool of brine containing lithium carbonate
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