Progressing global lithium projects

• Autores: Cameron Perks
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 593, 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Mayo)
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Pilbara Minerals currently has an offtake agreement with Chinese supplier General Lithium Haimen Corp. for 40% of Pilgangoora's initial anticipated output of around 330,000 tpa concentrate, or around 44,000 tpa of LCE, as well as a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with General Lithium, another Chinese firm, to establish a downstream processing joint venture. According to Altura, their project could be in production by early 2018. Altura already has a binding offtake agreement with China-based Lionergy Ltd for 100,000 tpa of 6% Li2 O spodumene concentrate for an initial five-year period as well as a non-binding MoU with Optimum Nano Battery Co. Ltd, a Chinese lithium battery and electric vehicle maker. In addition to this, Nemaska Lithium has agreed to supply 8,000 tpa lithium carbonate to FMC beginning in mid-2018 in October 2016, but has since moved this date to the 1st of April 2019. Besides internal expansions, the deal seems crucial for FMC to achieve their expansion commitments. ERCB/AGS Open File Report 2011-10 The company hopes to begin producing spodumene by 2019 or 2020 and to enter the battery grade lithium carbonate market by 2022 or 2023. The company intends to send samples of lithium hydroxide to global customers by mid-2017 and last year signed an agreement with US lithium-producer FMC Corp. to supply it with lithium carbonate once in production.