[annual Review] Review of Lithium Mine News and production expansion of Lithium smelter in 2019

SMM1, March 3: 2019, the new energy vehicle market from boom to decline, sales decline, coupled with the gloom of the whole market, new energy vehicles in 2019 subsidies retreat in the case of the dark moment, as the new energy vehicle market sales decline, in the past year, the upstream mining end has also experienced a variety of conditions, at the same time, the relevant smelters still have plans to put into production and expand production.

The lithium mines of 2019.

Berkshire Hathaway signs lithium mining agreement with annual output of 90,000 tons

According to the Financial Times, people familiar with the matter said that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Company, owned by (WarrenBuffett), signed an agreement to extract lithium from the company's geothermal wells in California, a project that could provide a safe supply of lithium to U. S. automakers and battery makers. Berkshire-Hathaway geothermal wells can produce 90, 000 tons of lithium a year, worth about $1.5 billion at current prices.

Aguilar Salt Lake Lithium production Project with an Investment of US $200m begins Operation at the end of the year

January 21, Chile's Messenger reported that US enterprise Ensorcia invested US $220 million in cooperation with Chilean state mining company (Enami) to begin lithium mining and production in Aguilar Salt Lake, the third largest region (Atacama region), in the fourth quarter of 2019. Unlike the traditional technology of extracting lithium from solar evaporation pools, Ensorcia will adopt a technology called MU, in which a movable device is installed at the edge of the salt lake to extract lithium mixed salt and then inject lake water and other minerals back into the salt lake. The technology has been tested successfully in the United States and hopes to achieve commercial production in Chile.

Lithium Cauchari-Olaroz Lithium Project in Argentina to be put into production in 2020

The US lithium company said on February 26th that its cauchario-olaroz lithium project in Argentina was expected to go into production by 2020 despite unusually heavy rainfall in recent weeks. Cauchari is wholly owned by MineraExar and MineraExar is a joint venture with 62.5 per cent and 37.5 per cent shares held by Lithium Company of the United States and Jiangxi Ganfeng Company, respectively.

Premier Mining resumes drilling for Lithium and Tantalum projects in Zimbabwe

February 27-the Zulu lithium and tantalum project, wholly owned by PremierAfrican Mining in Zimbabwe, will resume drilling.

AllianceMineral and Jiangte Motor sign Cooperation Agreement to produce and sell Lithium hydroxide

May 7, Australian lithium manufacturer AllianceMineralAssets said on Monday that it had signed a cooperation agreement with China's Gant Motor to produce and sell lithium hydroxide. This will allow the company to put minerals directly into each other's production lines, regardless of the risk of capital costs. As part of the deal, AllianceMineral and Gant Motor have agreed to enter the downstream lithium market within the next six to 12 months.

In AVZ: 's Manono project, RocheDure has the largest hard rock lithium ore resource in the world.

May 13, AVZ announced that RocheDure pegmatite, its Manono project in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has the world's largest hard rock type lithium ore resources, with a proven and presumed ore content of 269 million tons, lithium oxide taste 1.65%, tin 220000 tons and tantalum 9600 tons.

The mining and separation project of Rongjie methyl caryophyllite mine was officially put into production on June 10.

June 6, Rongjie shares announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Ganzi Zhou Runda Lithium Co., Ltd. has been notified by the Kangding Municipal Government of Sichuan Province on the 6th, agreeing that the company's wholly owned subsidiary Ganzi State Rongda Lithium Co., Ltd. Kangding Methyl Carboniferous Mine will start construction on May 16. Accordingly, Rongjie shares finally decided that its methyl caryophyllite mining and separation project was officially put into production on June 10, and a grand production ceremony was held in Tagong Township, Kangding City, Ganzi Prefecture.

Cunninghamia lanceolata shares 120 million yuan acquisition of some shares in Altura Mining continues to increase new energy business

On June 24, Cunninghamia lanceolata AG, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Yongshan International, recently signed a "share Sale and purchase Agreement" with Frey Holdings Limited. Yongshan International intends to offer A $0.10 per share for a total price of about A $25.1361 million, equivalent to about 120 million yuan. The total AlturaMiningLimited, held by Fry Holdings accounts for 11.83% of its issued shares. A few days ago, this share transfer has completed the registration formalities of share transfer.

Ganfeng Lithium takes a stake in Bacanora and its lithium clay project company Sonora through its subsidiary

July 1-Ganfeng Lithium Industry announced that at its 35th meeting of the fourth session of the Board of Directors held on June 28, 2019, it examined and passed the "motion on subscribing for part of the equity interest in Bacanora and its lithium clay project company Sonora related to mining rights investment", agreeing to Ganfeng International Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company, to subscribe for new shares in Bacanora with its own capital of 14.4 million pounds. Invest in Sonora at the company level with its own capital of £7.5636 million and authorize the management of the company to handle the transaction at its sole discretion.

Great Wall signs additional agreement with Australian lithium miners to continue supplying spodumene concentrate

PilbaraMinerals, an Australian lithium miner, said on July 9 that it had signed an additional agreement with Chinese carmaker Great Wall Automotive Co., Ltd., to supply spodumene concentrate, a key mineral in the manufacture of electric vehicle batteries. Under the agreement, Pilbara will start shipping in August, shipping 20, 000 metric tons of dry concentrate a year for six consecutive years.

Altura Mining Industry signs underwriting Agreement with Shandong Ruifu Lithium Industry

July 12, Altura and Chinese lithium material manufacturer Shandong Ruifu signed a binding underwriting agreement, starting from July 2019, the annual output of lithium concentrate in the underwriting agreement is 35000 tons for a period of five years, and Shaanxi JJJJR optimized energy (JRO) reached an agreement to terminate the existing underwriting agreement.

The PLASA lithium salt lake project plans to reach an annual capacity of 25000 tons of lithium carbonate equivalent by the fourth quarter of 2020

Huang Jianrong, chairman of Mount Qomolangma, Tibet, said that according to the salt lake lithium extraction technology currently selected by the company and the overall investment arrangement, the PLASA lithium salt lake project plans to reach an annual capacity of more than 25000 tons of LCE (lithium carbonate equivalent) by the fourth quarter of 2020. At present, after a lot of work in the early stage of the company, the location demonstration and market research of the factory have been basically completed, and the location of the construction factory has also been communicated with the relevant government departments in Salta province of Argentina. However, in the future, there are still some difficulties in brine transportation roads, factory production and electricity consumption, and the current conditions can not meet the requirements of large-scale production of the company.

Chilean Copper signs an Agreement with miner SalarBlanco to cooperate in the Development of Lithium projects

August 2, according to Chilean copper (Codelco) official website announced that Chilean copper and miner SalarBlanco signed a non-binding agreement, will be in northern Chile SalardeMaricunga salt beach cooperation in the development of lithium projects.

Albemarle cuts $300m in acquisition of Wodgina due to weak lithium demand

AlbemarleCorp, the world's largest lithium producer, announced on its website that it had revised its agreement to buy MineralResourcesLimited's Wodgina lithium mine in order to cut transaction expenses. At present, Albemarle has agreed to acquire a 60 per cent stake in Wodgina Lithium Mine for $820 million in cash and to form a joint venture with MineralResourcesLimited to operate the mine and to produce battery-grade lithium hydroxide.

Albemarle: Chile Lithium Project production will increase by 30% 2019 production will be 40, 000 tons

Albemarle said it was pushing ahead with a project to increase lithium production in Chile by 30 per cent instead of extracting more brine from SalardeAtacama, SeekingAlpha reported. LukeKissam, chief executive, said the company had successfully tested the process, ordered equipment and planned to start construction in the second quarter; the project is expected to be operational in 2021. Albemarle plans to produce 40000 tons of lithium in Chile in 2019, roughly the same level as in 2018, and up to 80000 tons of lithium a year by 2043.

The presumed mineral resources for the extension of the Cinovec Lithium Tin license to the end of next year are 372.4 million tons.

August 7, EuropeanMetals Cinovec lithium tin project license has been extended, the Czech government will extend the license until December 31 next year. Cinovec is the largest lithium deposit in Europe, with a presumed mineral resource of 372.4 million tons, a lithium oxide grade of 0.45% and a tin grade of 0.04%. The estimated mineral resources are 323.5 million tons, the grade of lithium oxide is 0.39% and the grade of tin is 0.04%.

Piedmont mine life increased to 25 years total lithium hydroxide production is expected to be 489000 tons

August 8, PiedmontLithium official website announced that compared with the 2018 study, 2019 of the latest research results show that the company's Piedmont lithium mine life increased from the previous 13 years to 25 years. At present, the annual output of lithium hydroxide in the project is 22700 tons. The total lithium oxide reserves of the project are 27.9 million tons. And the latest research estimates that within the life of the mine, the total output of lithium hydroxide can reach 489000 tons, and the total output of spodumene is expected to be 3.81 million tons.

Argosy Mining Company acquires Lithium Mine in Tonopah, Nevada

Argosy will actually take in 34 square kilometers of lithium mines in the United States and produce 1 million tons of lithium carbonate as planned, which will be paid in the form of A $500000 in cash or stock. The mine area is located near the SilverPeak salt water operation area operated by Albemarle.

Tianqi Lithium Industry signs "long-term supply Agreement" with LG Chemistry

August 22, Tianqi Lithium Co., Ltd. wholly owned subsidiary TianqiLithiumKwinanaPtyLtd and LGChem,Ltd signed SupplyAgreement.

Australian lithium miner Argosy signs lithium carbonate supply agreement with Mitsubishi

August 29, Australian lithium miner Argosy confirmed with the Japanese Mitsubishi Group (MitsubishiCorp.) subsidiary signed a preliminary agreement on the supply of lithium carbonate, the agreement for a period of three years, and can be extended for another two years. Under the agreement, Argosy supplies Mitsubishi with 2000 tons of lithium carbonate a year, which will come from Argosy's Rincon project in Argentina. As the commercial terms are finalized, the two companies will continue negotiations to reach a detailed final supply contract.

Ningde era: invest 260 million yuan in Pilbara to ensure the supply of upstream lithium resources

September 4-Ningde Times announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Hong Kong Times New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. and PilbaraMineralsLimited have signed a subscription agreement on September 3, 2019. in order to ensure the supply of lithium resources upstream of the company, the company intends to make a strategic investment in Pilbara by subscribing for additional shares at A $0.3 per share at a total price of A $55 million (converted at the intermediate exchange rate of the people's Bank of China on September 3, 2019). (equivalent to about RMB 263.318 million) subscribes to its newly issued 183333334 common shares, accounting for 8.5 per cent of its total share capital after the completion of the share issue, whichever is the final completion of Pilbara financing.

MaliLithium is looking for a partner for Goulamina Lithium Mine with an annual output of 362000 tons of lithium concentrate

MaliLithium is looking for a partner for its $200m Goulamina lithium mine. The company will make a final decision by the end of 2020, and the construction of the project is expected to take 18-24 months. The latest feasibility study of the Goulamina project estimates that if a concentrator with an annual capacity of 2 million tons is built, the average annual output of lithium concentrate could reach 362000 tons, totaling 5.7 million tons, within the initial mining life of 16 years. MaliLithium is optimistic about future demand for lithium mines. The company said in February that demand for lithium mines would be nine times higher over the next decade, and that its China would play a crucial role, with 65 per cent of battery capacity by 2028.

Lanxiao Science and Technology signs contract with Minmetals Salt Lake to extract Lithium from High concentration Brine for 22.81 million yuan

September 10, Lanxiao Science and Technology announcement, Xi'an Lanxiao Science and Technology New Materials Co., Ltd. and Minmetals Salt Lake Co., Ltd. signed a Li Ping salt lake lithium extraction project brine pretreatment workshop adsorption plant procurement contract, the contract value is 22808700.00 yuan. The announcement said that in view of the upgrading of the previous brine pretreatment section of the existing lithium carbonate project, the company provided 1000 tons of lithium carbonate adsorbents and complete sets of adsorption and separation devices to Minmetals Salt Lake, including the overall process design, adsorbents, supporting devices, as well as installation and commissioning, and finally realize the separation of magnesium and lithium in brine. The salt lake mining area of the project is located in Lenghu County, Qinghai Province. The concentration of brine is 2.5g. It is a typical high grade brine resources of salt lake.

Tesla plans to reach supply agreement with lithium miner Sigma miners remain bullish on lithium market prospects

Sept. 16-Tesla seeks to reach an agreement with Brazil's SigmaLithiumResourcesGroup in the hope that the latter will provide lithium mines for Tesla. If a final agreement is reached, both companies will benefit directly, but only if Tesla opens an electric car battery plant in the US.

Exploration breaks through the discovery of high lithium bauxite in Yunnan area

Through 1: 50000 regional geological survey, a layer of paleo-weathering crust type high lithium bauxite orebody with a thickness of 0.5mm and 1.5m was found on the unconformity interface between Carboniferous and Devonian in central Yunnan. The highest grade of Li2O reached 0.98%, and the average grade was 0.74%. This discovery not only has a good guiding significance for the comprehensive evaluation and overall development of bauxite and lithium resources, but also provides a new prospecting clue for this type of lithium ore.

Sayona to bid for Quebec lithium miner production of spodumene last year was 114000 tons

Sayona, Australia, previously said it was interested in bidding for Quebec lithium miner NorthAmericanLithium's (NAL), which includes a lithium mine and concentrator owned by the company, which will produce 114000 tons of spodumene in 2018. Sayona, located in a nearby Authier project, is currently awaiting regulatory approval, and two similar projects can be integrated to achieve a major operational breakthrough.

Wesfarmers's 50% interest in MtHolland Lithium Mine is expected to become an important producer of Battery Grade Lithium hydroxide

Sept. 25-Wesfarmers announced that it has completed its acquisition of KidmanResources for $776 million. The acquisition gives Wesfarmers a 50 per cent stake in the MtHolland lithium joint venture in Western Australia, with SQM holding the rest. The MtHolland lithium project, which covers a mine, concentrator and refiner, is expected to become an important producer of battery-grade lithium hydroxide.

ThackerPass lithium mine production plan to reduce the first stage of lithium carbonate annual production capacity is expected to be 20, 000 tons

September 26-LithiumAmericas had previously considered cutting the production plan of the ThackerPass lithium mining project by 1/3. The company has now launched a confirmed feasibility study (DFS), estimates that the first phase of the project will have an annual production capacity of 20, 000 tons of lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE).

Australian Lithium reshuffle Lithium Merchant Alita bankrupt

September 28-after talks with lenders and key stakeholders, AlitaResources, an Australian lithium mining company, announced that it had appointed an bankruptcy administrator to restructure the company.

Annual output of EarlGrey Lithium Mine approved in Western Australia to reach 300-5 million tons

Oct. 15-the Western Australian Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved an environmental license for the EarlGrey lithium mining project. The project is open pit mining, the annual output of lithium mine is expected to reach 300-5 million tons, and the project will be developed in several stages over a 40-year mining cycle, with a total mining capacity of 100 million tons.

Production expansion of smelter

Albemarle's new lithium hydroxide plant in Western Australia can be expanded to 100000 tons with an initial capacity of 60, 000 tons.

It is reported that Albemarle, headquartered in the United States, has begun to build a lithium hydroxide production plant in the Kemerton Strategic Industrial Zone in Western Australia. The plant will be built on 89 hectares of land and will handle spodumene concentrate from the TalisonLithiumGreenbushes plant adjacent to the town of Greenbushes in Western Australia. Albemarle said the Kemerton plant had an initial capacity of 60000 tonnes of lithium hydroxide a year, which could be expanded to 100000 tonnes. The Kemeton plant is expected to begin construction in 2021 and is currently under construction.

Tibetan lithium industry has an annual production capacity of 10,000 tons of lithium carbonate has recently been put into production to set a precedent for lithium extraction from low concentration brine.

January 15, Zangge holding Co., Ltd. (Zangge Lithium Industry) issued a notice, recently received notice from subsidiary Golmud Zangge Lithium Industry Co., Ltd., learned that Zangge lithium industry "annual production of 20,000 tons of lithium carbonate project phase I project" (annual capacity of 10,000 tons of lithium carbonate) has been successfully completed and put into production, the first batch of products tested by authoritative departments have all reached battery level standards.

Sichuan can invest in lithium industry lithium hydroxide hot out of the furnace

January 16-after the successful production of the first bag of lithium carbonate products on December 31, 2018, another major product, lithium hydroxide, was also successfully debugged and produced today, and the main physical and chemical indexes of the two products both reached the battery grade product standard. since then, the company has successfully produced lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide. It indicates that the company, as a key link in the whole industry chain of Sichuan Lithium Power Co., Ltd., has a strong role to play an important role in synergy.

Tianqi Lithium Industry plans to reach 1.95 million tons of Lithium concentrate by the end of 2020

April 19, Tianqi lithium Zhangjiagang base recently received collective research. According to the company, Zhangjiagang base product quality is the industry benchmark, half of the output exported to Japan and South Korea, is now completely in short supply, inventory is extremely low. In terms of capacity layout, the company's overall planning is to reach 1.95 million tons of lithium concentrate and 113400 tons of lithium compound capacity by the end of 2020, and will be released step by step; in terms of solid-state lithium battery layout, the company has mainly participated in SolidEnergy, Beijing Weilan and other companies for solid-state battery and its technical layout, and has not yet achieved large-scale commercial production. In terms of SQM capacity, the SQM lithium carbonate quota will be 2.2 million tons by 2030, and SQM will strive to reach 120000 tons of lithium salt capacity by 2020 and 200000 tons by 2023.

Weihua and Bamo Science and Technology Strategic Cooperation 2019-2024 Lithium Salt Procurement contract

June 16, Weihua shares announced that the company and Bamo Technology on lithium salt business cooperation on June 15 signed the "Strategic Cooperation Agreement." According to the announcement, Bamo Technology (or its designated subsidiary) intends to purchase lithium salts such as lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide from Weihua shares (or its designated subsidiaries) between 2019 and 2024, according to the Weihua share capacity construction plan. The annual purchase volume is expected to be 300 tons, 10000 tons, 18000 tons, 21000 tons and 25000 tons, respectively. Within the total scale of procurement for the above-mentioned years, the procurement plan and the structure of the products to be procured shall be determined by the parties through consultation on a quarterly basis.

Albemarle, Sichuan Fulin and Chile Molymet plan to build lithium plants in Chile

June 25, Albemarle said that the company is recently with Sichuan Fulin, Chile Molymet mining industry to discuss plans for the construction of lithium plants in Chile. Earlier, Samsung SDI and Posco iron company (POSCO) abandoned plans to build a lithium plant in Chile. Last year, Molymet Mining, Sichuan Fortune, Samsung SDI and Posco made huge investments in building lithium plants in Chile, totaling $754 million.

Jintai Lithium Industry has an annual output of 3000 tons of lithium carbonate production line "entering the market" Lanxiao science and technology to promote the creation of salt lake lithium benchmark

July 17, Lanxiao Technology and Qinghai Jintai Lithium Industry signed a 3000 tons / year lithium carbonate production line construction, operation and technical service contract. It is reported that after a year, the project has been held on July 16 production ceremony, officially announced to be put into production. Jintai Lithium Industry, located in Valenmahai Mining area, Qinghai Province, has planned to build 10, 000 tons / year lithium carbonate production line; the 3000 tons / year production line put into operation is part of the above-mentioned planned production line.

PastosGrandes project successfully passes feasibility study with an annual output of 24000 tons of lithium carbonate

July 30, Vancouver Millennium Lithium (MillennialLithiumofVancouver) official website showed on Monday, the company's PastosGrandes lithium mining project has successfully passed the feasibility study, will produce battery-grade lithium carbonate. The life of the lithium mine project is 40 years, and the annual production target of lithium carbonate is 24000 tons.

Yabao delays construction of 125000 ton lithium processing plant

August 8, the United States Yabao Company said that due to the lithium market oversupply, leading to the decline in lithium prices, the company will postpone the annual production capacity of about 125000 tons of lithium processing plant construction project.

Qinghai Salt Lake Lithium extraction and Major Science and Technology Project will pry up the output value of 400 million yuan

August 21, Qinghai Provincial Department of Science and Technology disclosed that the province's 2019 provincial major science and technology project "Salt Lake Resources to produce Metal Lithium Industry chain key Technology Research and demonstration" project will build a new process for efficient green separation and extraction of lithium chloride from the complex system of salt lake, and on this basis to build a 1000-ton electrolytic metal lithium co-production demonstration device, with an estimated output value of 400 million yuan during the implementation period.

Xianfeng Holdings: new Progress in Lithium Carbonate extraction Project

Xianfeng holding Co., Ltd. held the seventh meeting of the sixth session of the Board of Directors on December 25, 2017. it was agreed that the company should contribute RMB 82 million yuan with its own capital. With China Agricultural means of production Corporation, Zhongnong Group holding Co., Ltd., Mangya Xingyuan Potash Fertilizer Co., Ltd. to set up a lithium carbonate extraction joint venture company, engaged in industrial grade lithium carbonate extraction and preparation business; In April 2018, the joint venture Qinghai Zhongnong Xianfeng Lithium Co., Ltd. completed industrial and commercial registration; in May 2018, Zhongnong Xianfeng Lithium Industry obtained the "letter on consent to the first phase of 10,000 tons / a industrial grade lithium carbonate construction project of Qinghai Zhongnong Xianfeng Lithium Industry Co., Ltd." approved by the Economic and Information Committee of Qinghai Haixi Mongolian Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

Tianqi Lithium shelves plans to expand the world's largest lithium plant

Tianqi Lithium, a Chinese lithium miner, has shelved plans to complete A $300m (US $205 million) phase II expansion of the world's largest lithium hydroxide plant as oversupply of the commodity continues to drive down prices. The company officially opened the first phase of its Kwinana plant on Tuesday. The company said the decision was made to focus on completing the initial phase of the facility, not to respond to market conditions.

SavannahResources talks with carmakers on Commercial Lithium production in Portugal in 2021

SavannahResources, a London-based mining company, said on Monday that it was in talks with several major European industrial groups, including carmakers, to start commercial lithium production in the MinadoBarroso project in northern Portugal in 2021. Portuguese miners, which sell almost all of the ceramic industry, are only now ready to produce high-end lithium for electric cars and electronics. In a statement, SavannahResources said commercial production of lithium concentrate was planned to begin in 2021 and would begin production in 2022 "in line with the projected increase in lithium demand for electric vehicles in Europe."

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