Benchmarkminerals.com – What is driving lithium prices?

Aug 26, 2022

Happy Friday! Since the start of the year, Chinese battery-grade lithium carbonate prices have jumped 90% and lithium hydroxide 127%. But since reaching record highs in April, average lithium prices around the globe have held steady. But cobalt and nickel, also important minerals used in batteries, have fallen. What is driving lithium prices to behave differently to other minerals in 2022? How will these prices change in the longer term? In a free-to-read article published this week, we...

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Mining.com – Robert Friedland’s Ivanhoe Electric one of three finalists for Saudi Arabia project

Aug 26, 2022

https://www.mining.com/robert-friedlands-ivanhoe-electric-one-of-three-finalists-for-saudi-arabia-project/ Robert Friedland, Founder and Co-Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines, speaking at the 2022 Future Minerals Forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Credit: FMF Saudi Arabia has narrowed the field to three finalists for a massive mining exploration licence about 175 km west of Riyadh that it says contains about 25 million tonnes of zinc and copper at grades of 4.11% zinc and 0.56% copper. The kingdom...

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