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Premier African Minerals plans lithium shipments to China by March 2023
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Suzhou TA&A takes equity, invests $35 mln in pilot plant
First shipment to China expected by March 2023
48,000 T spodumene concentrate annual output projected
Chinese battery minerals giants flock to Zimbabwe
July 11 (Reuters) - Premier African Minerals , will start shipping spodumene concentrate from its Zulu lithium mine in Zimbabwe to China by March 2023 after signing an offtake deal with Suzhou TA&A Ultra Clean Technology Co (300390.SZ), chief executive George Roach told Reuters.
Zimbabwe holds some of the world's biggest hard-rock lithium deposits and Suzhou joins a growing list of Chinese firms that have invested in the southern African country's battery minerals projects, including Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt (603799.SS) and Sinomine Resource Group (002738.SZ).
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Roach said Suzhou is injecting $35 million for the construction of a high capacity pilot plant at Zulu, output from which would be nearly 50,000 tonnes of spodumene concentrate annually.
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Construction can start immediately thanks to the funding, Roach said, with an aim to ship by March 31 2023 and ramp up production to around 48,000 tonnes of spodumene concentrate 6 a year.
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In March, Suzhou became a 13.38% shareholder in Premier through a private placement in which it injected 12 million pounds ($14.37 million) into the company, securing spodumene concentrate supply for Yibin Tianyi, China's leading lithium chemicals producer, which Suzhou jointly owns with CATL, the world's largest electric vehicle battery maker.
The prices of lithium minerals, key components in the manufacture of electric batteries, have soared in recent months, thanks to growing demand for clean energy sources, and Zimbabwe, starved of investment for more than two decades, hopes its lithium resources will recharge its moribund economy.