RE: France enters ‘white gold’ rush as top producer aims to supply Europe with lithium25 Oct 2022 13:41
Hi gemell,
That I am aware of, besides PREM, we have:
Mexico nationalised their resources and they created a lithium producing company. The company will be called Litio para Mexico, or Lithium for Mexico, the decree read, and will begin operations within the next six months.
EnergySource and Controlled Thermal Resources, or CTR, are also developing joint geothermal-lithium facilities at the Salton Sea (probably going live early 2024 though).
China’s Sinomine Resource group acquired Zimbabwe’s Bikita Minerals, the only mine in Africa producing lithium as of 2021, in January. The company plans to ramp up production to five million tonnes of lithium per year by end of June 2023.
European Lithium wants to start mining lithium in Austria by the end of 2023.
Various producers (especially Chinese) are ramping up production in 2023, see Global Lithium as one of the examples.
Just realised that Savannah has luckily put on hold their project in Portugal. And luckily RIO's project in Serbia has been shut down. So not all "bad" news :-)