Letter from China: What I learnt about China’s lithium industry
In the first week of November I was lucky enough to visit China, spending time in Shanghai and Beijing as I have on many occasions over the past twenty-plus years that I’ve been covering China, but also travelling to Jiangxi province to visit a number of lithium mining, processing and refining operations. Much has been written about the Chinese lithium industry over the past five years and I was very keen to find out for myself whether operating costs really are as low as many suggest and how viable some of the production forecasts that have been made for the...
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