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Start-Up MOBI LATAM partners with EnergyX to develop Bolivian domestic lithium battery supply chain

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Bolivia is lithium-rich; the USGS estimates identified lithium reserves in the country to be 21 million tons—ahead of Argentina and Chile, the other members of the “lithium triangle”. However, Bolivia is production-poor; Chile and Argentina are top global producers, but Bolivia has yet to produce the mineral in commercial quantities.

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Bio-isobutanol company Gevo signs licensing and joint development agreements with Porta in Argentina; corn feedstock

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to construct multiple isobutanol plants in Argentina using corn as a feedstock. As one of the leading engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) service providers to the ethanol industry in Argentina, Porta would provide the EPC services for the projects. Patrick Gruber, Gevo CEO.

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GM investing $650M in Lithium Americas; offtake agreement from Thacker Pass

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GM has secured all the battery material we need to build more than 1 million EVs annually in North America in 2025 and our future production will increasingly draw from domestic resources like the site in Nevada we’re developing with Lithium Americas. Tranche 2: GM to invest $330 million into Lithium Americas.

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Oversold Lithium could be about to rally

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Last year’s 12 percent slide by the Bloomberg Commodity Index —spurred by 20 percent-plus declines by industrial bellwethers like West Texas Intermediate crude, steel and platinum—came in the wake of two years of modest gains. Miller sees 2019 as the tipping point where demand will eventually outstrip supply starting 2020.

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GM leads $50M funding round in EnergyX; advanced lithium extraction and refining technology

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—Teague Egan, CEO, EnergyX In 2022, EnergyX became the first firm to design, build and commission an in-field pilot plant in the Lithium Triangle (Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia), which encompasses more than 65% of the known global lithium reserves.

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