SHANGHAI, Feb 14 (SMM) - China's industrial-grade lithium carbonate output reached 17,030 mt in January, up 1% MoM and 59% YoY.
Although the production of salt lake was reduced for cold weather and spodumene-based smelters carried out maintenance during the CNY holiday, the aggressive capacity release in lepidolite-based smelters still boosted the industrial-grade lithium carbonate supply to grow over the month.
In February, the maintainance of some spodumene-based smelters was still ongoing, but the production of salt lake rallied drastically on warmer weather.
It is thus estimated that the industrial-grade lithium carbonate output will add 1% month-on-month to 17,142 mt.
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