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IMO companies usually starts production for products with highest demand ... so that´s really good news.
"Following the Corona-related break, Volkswagen in Zwickau is slowly ramping up production of the fully electric ID.301 this week. With the restart on Thursday, Zwickau will be the company’s first vehicle plant in Germany to be gradually brought back into operation."
Source: https://www.volkswagen-newsroom.com/en/stories/the-shift-to-electric-mobility-continues-5977

Only Bacanora Minerals has a concession to exploit the Sonoran lithium

The Bacanora Minerals company is the only one that has a concession for the extraction of minerals throughout the country, which it does in the lithium deposit located in the Municipality of Bacadéhuachi in the State of Sonora.

Jorge Vidal Ahumada, secretary of Economy in the entity, said that this company of Canadian origin and with participation of Chinese capital, is the only one that can extract lithium in these deposits.

He pointed to the questions that the Government of the Republic is the one who must authorize the concessions to be able to exploit this industry, that said company is the only one that can do it because it has the concession of the Federation itself.

"The company of Bacanora Minerals, which is the one with lithium in Sonora, is a concession that has already been given to them; they have all the permits to exploit that concession, they are the only ones, as far as I know, in the country that has a concession, "he said.

This after that on January 22, the President of the Republic, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said in a morning conference that there were no concessions for the exploitation of lithium and that he did not know if a Chinese company was doing it, which I would have to verify.

"Even here in Sonora it has been said that there is lithium on the side of Bacadéhuachi and also on the side of Magdalena, if I remember correctly, but there are no concessions, the only concession that exists for this product is the one in Bacanora Minerals" , emphasized Vidal Smoked.

He pointed out that this is a topic that is not new, since they have been working on the project for four years and they hope to enter a new rhythm once the investments with the capital support of the Chinese Ganfeng company to Bacanora Minerals are increased.

source: https://www.elsoldehermosillo.com.mx/local/solo-bacanora-minerals-tiene-concesion-para-explotar-el-litio-sonorense-4831552.html
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I expect more of such rulings in the next months which will limit further expansion or even reduce existing Li production / output and should / will have soon an impact on Li Prices too ... one more big advantage of Bacanora project ...
article:

Chilean Lithium Miner SQM Dealt Blow by Environmental Court Ruling

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A Chilean environmental court has upheld a complaint by indigenous communities in the country´s northern Atacama Desert about the use of water by SQM, the world´s No. 2 producer of lithium.
The decision by the First Environmental Court in the nearby city of Antofagasta calls into jeopardy SQM´s $400 million plan to expand its lithium carbonate production plant to feed appetite for the ultralight battery metal.
Water has become a key sticking point for the expansion plans of both SQM (SQMA.SN) and top competitor Albemarle (ALB.N), both of which operate in the salt flats of the Atacama, the world’s driest desert, which supply more than one-third of the global supply of lithium, a key ingredient in the batteries that power electric vehicles.
Soaring lithium demand has raised questions about whether Chile´s arid northern desert can support current and future levels of lithium production along with the needs of sprawling nearby copper mines, a booming tourism industry and indigenous communities.
The court ruled that a compliance plan presented by SQM in response to a multi-year investigation by Chile´s SMA environmental regulator that found the miner had overdrawn lithium-rich brine was “insufficient.”

The plan included a new online system to monitor extraction rates of brine, which holds lithium in suspension, and the shutting down of one of its freshwater wells.
The court said its decision was based on a “precautionary principle,” taking into account the “particular fragility” of the Atacama´s ecosystem and the “high level of scientific uncertainty” about the behavior of its water table. It said SQM had no way of proving that the measures it had proposed were capable of “containing and reducing or eliminating the negative effects generated by the breaches of the company.”
“We must protect sensitive ecosystems even more when they constitute the ancestral habitat of our native peoples whom the State of Chile is obliged to protect,” court president Mauricio Oviedo said in a statement.
The complaint was brought by indigenous people living in surrounding communities of Peine and Camar, and the Indigenous Advisory Council of Atacameno People.

The SMA must now resume its sanctioning of SQM for the original infractions, the court said, which could involve fines of over $3 million, the closure of its operations or revocation of its environmental permits.
Neither SQM nor the SMA could immediately be reached for comment.

source:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chile-sqm/chilean-lithium-miner-sqm-dealt-blow-by-environmental-court-ruling-idUSKBN1YV05T

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