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Chinese steel group Tsingshan investing $375M to build lithium plant in Argentina with Eramet

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China’s Tsingshan , the world’s largest producer of stainless steel, will invest $375 million to build a lithium plant in Argentina with French multinational mining and metallurgy company Eramet. Our decision to carry out our lithium project in Argentina is in line with the dynamic of strong market growth.

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International Lithium Association (ILiA) established to be the voice of the global lithium industry

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Traces of this element are present in nearly all minerals, brines, clays and sea water. The crust of earth contains an average of about 60 parts per million (ppm) or 0.006% while sea water typically contains 0.18 However, due to lithium’s high reactivity, metallic lithium is not found as such in nature. ppm Li (0.0018%).

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Stanford, UC Santa Cruz study explores ramifications of demand-driven peak to conventional oil

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Second, recent global efficiency standards for passenger vehicles, international freight, and domestic freight present significant changes from decades of stagnation in efficiency. First, demand for passenger travel may be saturating in industrialized countries. Third, price-competitive alternatives to conventional oil continue to expand.In

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Tesla And Other Tech Giants Scramble For Lithium As Prices Double

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Driven by the rise of battery gigafactories and game-changing Powerwall and energy storage businesses, the world now finds itself at the beginning of a lithium super cycle that is all about securing new supply, much of which is poised to come from lithium superstar Argentina.

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Nanjing team develops solar-powered electrolysis process for extraction of lithium from seawater

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In a paper in the journal Joule , they report that their electrolysis method made the lithium extraction process faster and more controllable than in adsorption- and dialysis-based methods and that it could overcome the limit of the concentration difference that is present in the dialysis method. Yang et al.

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Decoding The Complex Supply Chain In The Electric Vehicle Industry

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The majority of lithium reserves are found in countries like Australia, Chile, and Argentina. However, mining lithium raises environmental concerns such as water scarcity and pollution. Extracting nickel can have significant energy and water requirements, leading to potential environmental degradation.

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California Goes To Hell In A Handbasket But Greenius Says AB 811 is Our Route To Green Heaven

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And damned if California isn’t going to score like a horny Republican Governor on Viagra in Argentina. That’s why they have authorized over $7 billion bucks in energy efficiency and clean energy programs for the USA.