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Lithium producer Albemarle takes $1.15bn stake in Australian mine. Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Albemarle, the world’s largest producer of battery raw material lithium, has agreed to buy a 50 per cent stake in an Australian lithium mine for $1.15bn, as it looks to grow its supply to meet rising demand from electric cars. The company will set up a joint-venture with Australia’s Mineral Resources to develop its Wodgina hard rock lithium mine and build a plant to produce lithium hydroxide for batteries. The deal comes as North Carolina-based Albemarle is facing greater government scrutiny over its business in Chile, where it is looking to expand production from the Atacama Desert.....The two companies will fund and build a plant at the mine site to produce lithium hydroxide for batteries, the company said. Albemarle will have the right to market and sell all of the lithium. The first stage of the project will produce around 50,000 tonnes per year of lithium hydroxide for batteries, rising to 100,000 tonnes in the second phase.