HMS Bergbau AG intends to invest $700 million in lithium extraction in the east of Kazakhstan. The company has bought 51% in a Kazakhstani company. So far, the company plans to extract lithium, while the manufacture of lithium-ion batteries will depend on reserves. (Ukrainian metal)
Ukrlitiyvydobuvannya had two options to extract lithium-containing ore in Kirovohrad region: either at a quarry or in a mine. “We have stopped on the mine method, as the environment component is important for us. We want to be esg-friendly,” Denis Alyoshin, the company strategic development director, has said. According to him, Ukraine is not a…
UkrLitiyVydobuvannya LLC, owner of the special license to develop the Polokhovskoye lithium deposit in Kirovograd region, believes that the sea route is the most efficient to export lithium products from Ukraine. Yet, if the blockade is not lifted, it will be possible to transport lithium via railroad or even in trucks. The end product of…
Dobrovelichkovskaya community of Kirovograd region is looking for investors to develop lithium deposit. A site of the lithium ore Dobra is situated on the community territory. An investment passport has been developed with the help of U-LEAD experts. (Ukrainian metal)
At a meeting in Zhetysu region the Head of State said that Kazakhstan had large lithium reserves by various estimates ranging from 50 to 100,000 tons. The country’s geological service should speed up its activities in this direction, as development and exploration require large investments. The region has good industrial growth dynamics. Since the start…
The Sixth Administrative Court of Appeals refused to satisfy the claim of the Kiev prosecutors who demanded to cancel the special license given to the Ukrlitiydobycha LLC to extract lithium ore in Kirovograd region. The prosecutors said the license was given in violation of the legislation. The court said, that in 2011 the Ministry of…
According to VIAM CEO Yevgeniy Kablov, Russia experiences the problem of the lithium manufacture. The only lithium manufacturer in Russia is the Novosibirsk Works of Chemical Concentrates (NZKH), which supplies lithium both to the domestic customers and abroad. The enterprise started manufacturing lithium in 1960s. But Russia has no developed raw materials base to produce…
Petro-Consulting LLC, which has recently obtained the special license to mine for lithium ore in Donetsk region with the reserves of 14 million tons, intends to find a major foreign partner to start developing the deposit in 2021. Investments are estimated at $120 million and will be spent to construct the manufacturing infrastructure (electricity, gas,…