Standard Lithium to speed up production in Arkansas

Having trouble viewing this email?  View online Lithium & Rare Earth News Digest Wednesday 22 August 2018 Home    Coal    Copper    Iron Ore    Nickel    Rare Earth    Oil Sands    Uranium    Zinc Standard Lithium to speed up production in Arkansas Canadian company is focused on unlocking the value of existing large-scale US based lithium bearing brine resources that can be brought into production quickly. read » Aussie miner ready to export first rare earths from Kimberly region The Browns Range heavy rare earths pilot plant was officially opened late last month and will make Northern Minerals the only significant dysprosium and terbium heavy rare earth producer outside of China. read » Lithium price: Chile giant's scorched earth strategy Playbook follows success in the iodine market read » China's Ganfeng grabs SQM's stake in Argentinean lithium project The $87.5-million deal is the latest Chinese acquisition of a lithium project in South America, following Tianqi Lithium's decision to buy 24% of SQM for $4.1 billion, which has not yet been approved by Chile's antitrust regulator. read » Lithium boom unlikely to disrupt potash market — analyst While lithium and potash are often found in the same deposits and mined together, the increasing number of projects aimed at producing the white metal shouldn't have an impact in the potash market. read » Auto industry's use of lithium-ion batteries to grow seven-fold by 2025 The need to store electricity, generated by renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, will also help demand to grow, the Metal Bulletin says. read » Rio Tinto down despite $7.2bn cash return to investors Company said first-half profit grew 12% to $4.42 billion, below the $4.53 billion forecast by analysts. read » Falling Chinese electric car production wrenches lithium price The world's automakers "don't worry about lithium supply anymore" – Simon Moores. read » Caterpillar says tariffs will wipe out up to $200M Demand for mining as well as oil and gas equipment is so strong that the company said it was taking orders for delivery well into 2019. read » Tianqi goes ahead with $382-million Greenbushes lithium mine expansion The expansion, on top of a $238 million upgrade due for completion in April, will double the mine's production to 1.95 million tonnes a year of lithium concentrate a year from 2020. read » Canada scaring mining investors with long, unclear permit processes Study released Tuesday by the Fraser Institute, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec are the three main provinces where exploration permit processes have grown longer and less transparent over the past 10 years. read » Nutrien sells stake in Arab Potash to China's SDIC The $502-million transaction makes the Chinese company Arab Potash's majority shareholder. read » Bacanora Lithium changes its mind on how to fund flagship Sonora mine It has decided not to go ahead with a proposed $100-million share sale to help it fund the Mexican project. read » Miners wrote off almost one-third of investments over last decade From the $939bn invested in major projects between 2008 and 2017, the world's top 40 mining companies by market cap. wrote-off $273bn or 29% of the initial capital outlay. read » Australia's Northern Minerals makes first rare earth from pilot plant Company aims to be the first significant world producer outside of China of dysprosium, used by electric vehicle makers in the manufacturing of engine magnets. read » Plateau Energy finds one of 'world's largest' lithium-uranium resource in Peru Company plans to complete a feasibility study next year, which will reveal whether the proposed $800 million, underground lithium-uranium mine can and should be built. read » Titanium miner Kenmare's H1 profit surges on stronger Chinese demand Kenmare Resources' pretax profit for the first half of the year tripled as it shipped more finished products to China and other Asian markets. read » Chile lithium exports more than double in July from previous year The value of exports of the metal from Chile, one of the world's top producers of lithium, jumped 51 percent in the first seven months of the year. read » Read more Lithium & Rare Earth news on MINING.com » Home    Coal    Copper    Iron Ore    Nickel    Rare Earth    Oil Sands    Uranium    Zinc About Us   |  Privacy Policy  |  Unsubscribe   |  Contact Us   |  Advertise This email was sent to you by InfoMine Inc. 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