Lithium

Le groupe chinois acquiert la participation de 22,5 % d’Elevra Lithium pour 71 millions de dollars. Une offre distincte vise encore le rachat d’Atlantic Lithium, opérateur du projet.

NMDC, dont l’activité reste presque entièrement centrée sur le minerai de fer, étudie des opportunités dans le lithium, le cuivre, le cobalt et le charbon à coke. Le …

Taken over by African Critical Elements, the Karibib project must update its 2020 feasibility study before construction can be considered.

Lithium Africa is discussing two proposals to develop Springbok, a South African lithium project, including a $60 million financing offer.

Lithium Africa has received two non-binding proposals to finance development of Springbok, its lithium project in South Africa’s Northern Cape. One combines prepayment with purchasing all spodumene concentrate produced during the first three years. The other envisages a $60 million investment by a lithium processing group backed by a Fortune Global 500 company, in exchange for 55% of Lithium Africa’s interest in the project.

Namibia wants to change the relationship between mining investors and national resources. President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is calling on foreign companies to build processing and manufacturing facilities in the country, so minerals are no longer exported raw before being bought back as processed products. The direction is clear: access to subsurface resources must contribute more to industrialization, employment and local skills.

After bringing the Bougouni mine in Mali into production, Kodal Minerals is expanding its West African presence through an agreement on the Asamankese lithium project in Ghana. The British company will be able to acquire up to 80% of the…

Premier African Minerals raises £1.2 million to test a restart of the Zulu plant, with substantial dilution and industrial performance still to be demonstrated.

Battery recycling can complement African mines. Collection, safety, processing and markets determine whether a viable local industry emerges.