RE: Merkel30 Sep 2018 09:54
"She also repeated her call for European countries to develop battery cells
Germany is ready to take part"
Well folks the reality is , 99 % of Australia's Lithium will go to China other than supplying our battery manufacturing plant in the Northern territory . Full stop .
Congo Lithium if it were produced will also go to China , they already have the Government sown up there .
The America's brine will eventually be absorbed for the future use of the Americas .
There are only 2 mines in Europe ( Rio & EMH ) that are viable to produce carbonate the other smaller mines in Europe produce spodumene . EMH have been courting VW , Panasonic as we know about , I am also sure there have been many discussion with LG , Samsung , Mercedes and all the others , one or maybe a couple will pop out of the blue when you least expect it . The fact that there is not going to be enough Lithium suggests EMH is well and truelly in the front seat of supply for Europe .