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Bolivia’s government and Chinese consortium CBC, which includes battery manufacturer CATL, have signed an agreement for CBC to build two direct lithium extraction plants for at least $1 billion, government authorities said on Tuesday.The government will take a 51% stake in the project, to be located in the Uyuni salt flat in southwest Bolivia, within the so-called lithium triangle shared with Chile and Argentina.The two plants together are intended to produce 35,000 metric tons of lithium a year, said Omar Alarcon, head of state-run lithium company YLB.“This service contract will develop a final design for engineering, construction, operation and maintenance of a plant that will produce 10,000 tons of lithium carbonate per year and another plant producing 25,000 tons of battery-grade lithium carbonate per year,” he told a press conference.“CBC will build plants based on its technology at its own cost and risk,” he added, saying the expected $1 billion investment represented initial construction.Despite holding the world’s largest resources of lithium, which is used to make electric-vehicle batteries, Bolivia has not managed any significant production and many investors are wary of its volatile political climate. The country is expected to hold a presidential election next year.CATL supplies batteries for more than a third of electric or hybrid vehicles globally.Direct lithium extraction is an innovative method to extract lithium more quickly than traditional methods that use massive evaporation pools.Bolivia also signed a contract in September with Russia’s Uranium One Group for construction of a $970-million plant to produce 14,000 tons of lithium carbonate annually. However, the deal needs approval from Congress, where the ruling party is fractured and President Luis Arce lacks a congressional majority.The agreement with CBC also requires lawmaker approval.Arce said the government is scouting out more companies to invest in lithium, and has received interest from various countries.“It’s not just Russian and Chinese companies that are interested in investing in Bolivia,” he said. “Our country isn’t closed off to any company.”(By Daniel Ramos and Daina Beth Solomon; Editing by Rod Nickel)

Bolivia says China’s CBC to invest $1 billion in lithium plants

The outgoing administration of US President Joe Biden is making a last-ditch push for mining companies and others to invest in Greenland, a move aimed at cementing its critical minerals diplomacy and boosting Western supply of materials for the energy transition.Before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January, Biden and his staff have been taking multiple steps to shore up their legacy, including boosting aid to Ukraine and rushing to approve US mine permitting and financial incentives.Jose Fernandez, the State Department’s under secretary for economic growth, energy and the environment, spent four days in Nuuk last week to meet with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Minerals Resource Authority.Greenland, a semi-autonomous part of Denmark and host to one of the largest US Air Force bases, contains large deposits of most of the minerals considered critical by the US Geological Survey.“That was my attempt to provide to investors a glimpse of what opportunities exist in Greenland,” Fernandez told Reuters. “Greenland wants to become the next mining frontier.”The visit culminated in an eight-hour conference call last Wednesday from Nuuk moderated by Fernandez between Greenland officials and more than 70 Japanese, European and US mining companies and other potential investors.Diplomats from Australia, the United Kingdom and the European Union, as well as the US Export-Import Bank and the European Investment Bank, joined the call, which focused on seven projects, including a rare earths project from Neo Performance, a nickel project from Anglo American and a molybdenum project from Greenland Resources.“In Greenland, we see the development of critical minerals as a shared global responsibility, where our country can take on a leading role,” said Naaja Nathanielsen, Greenland’s minister for industry, trade, minerals, justice and gender equality.The US State Department has been offering permitting, mapping and other regulatory advice to Nuuk officials, as well as helping to draft a mining investment law, all aimed at prodding investment in Greenland at standards considered higher than Chinese-linked rivals.“Yes, we want to get their critical minerals and use them in our economy, but we don’t want to do that at their expense,” said Fernandez.Trump, who takes office in January, unsuccessfully tried to buy Greenland from Denmark during his first term.“I cannot forecast what the next administration will do, but the business case will not change,” Fernandez said. “The demand for critical minerals worldwide is increasing exponentially.”(By Ernest Scheyder; Editing by Bill Berkrot)

Biden officials make last-ditch push for Greenland mining investment

Canada’s Barrick Gold said on Tuesday the Ontario Superior Court has dismissed a case against the miner brought by Tanzanian residents on security incidents in the country, as the courts lacked jurisdiction to consider the claims.A group of 21 Tanzanian nationals had filed a lawsuit in Canada in November 2022, alleging that Barrick was complicit in extrajudicial killings by police guarding its North Mara mine.Barrick owns a majority stake in North Mara Gold Mine Limited, located in northwest Tanzania, since 2019.The lawsuit claimed that the miner “had effective and practical control” over Tanzanian police stationed at the mine.Barrick said on Tuesday the case should not have been brought in Canada.(By Seher Dareen; Editing by Shilpi Majumdar)

Barrick says Ontario Superior Court dismisses 2022 Tanzanian security case

London – Rio Tinto has lifted force majeure on third-party contracts for alumina exports from its Gladstone refineries in Australia, a company spokesperson said.Prices for alumina, the main material in making aluminum, have rallied this year as supply disruptions from Guinea, a major exporter of the feed material, Brazil and Australia tightened the market.Rio Tinto did not say when the force majeure, declared in May due to restricted gas capacity levels at its operations, was lifted.The miner said in its third-quarter production results that the Gladstone operations were expected to return to normal levels by the end of 2024. Its third-quarter alumina production fell by 7% year on year.Alumina prices are up 68% since the start of the year to 5,564 yuan ($767) per metric ton, adding pressure on aluminum producers. However, new capacity for converting bauxite into alumina due online next year is expected to ease the tightness.($1 = 7.2492 Chinese yuan renminbi)(Reporting by Eric Onstad and Polina Devitt; editing by Jason Neely)

Rio Tinto lifts force majeure on its Australian alumina exports

Chinese mining company Chinalco could invest some $426 million in bauxite mining in Suriname, the chair of a Surinamese presidential mining commission said on Monday, with the South American country expected to get a 13% share in the project.If approved by parliament, Chinalco could begin construction by the middle of next year and would produce 6 million tonnes of bauxite – the key ore for aluminum – per year, said government advisor Daniel Lachman.(By Ank Kuipers and Oliver Griffin)&nbsp;

Chinalco could invest $426 million in Suriname bauxite project

Moscow – Russia’s Alrosa said on Tuesday that it has reached a new agreement with Russia’s state Diamond Fund on the sale of rough diamonds, and that the fund will receive the new diamonds by the end of 2024.(Writing by Felix Light; editing by Jason Neely)

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Anglo American AAL.L said on Tuesday its South African unit has launched a placing of about 16 million shares in Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) as the London-listed miner works toward a demerger of the Johannesburg-listed unit.The total offering size is about $535 million, according to a bookrunner.Anglo American said it was proposing to sell about an additional 6% of Amplats as part of the demerger process.The placing will also raise cash for Anglo American, the parent company of Amplats.(By Yadarisa Shabong in Bengaluru; Editing by Shailesh Kuber)

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Australia-listed Vulcan Energy is in talks with lithium companies to license its filtration technology, tapping a new revenue source as the firm commercializes its renewable energy project in Germany, the CEO said on Tuesday.Vulcan began producing lithium hydroxide earlier this month from its Rhine Valley operations using adsorption direct lithium extraction (A-DLE) – harnessing geothermal heat to extract lithium from brine deposits.DLE is expected to reshape the lithium market by speeding the production process of the metal used in EV batteries and electronics to hours or days, compared with months or longer.Vulcan has joined the ranks of companies like Eramet and Exxon Mobil aiming to make the technology commonplace.“We are talking to all sorts, including developers and producers. If you have a four-to-five-year window to get into production, you need to act now,” CEO Cris Moreno told Reuters.“There’s also producers out there that are trying to get an extra 1-2% of efficiency.”Moreno said such efficiency gains represent a lot of money for large producers.Vulcan is in the final stage of finalizing a 1.4 billion euro ($1.47 billion) funding package to build a commercial facility in Landau that is set to start production in 2027. Its lithium hydroxide is going to customers like Stellantis for quality testing in the meantime.The lithium and energy producer expects to finalize commitment letters on the 40% debt portion of its funding by Christmas and secure strategic equity by the first quarter of next year.It was awarded 100 million euros in funding from Germany this month for the project, whose geothermal heat will help decarbonize the Landau district.($1 = 0.9554 euros)(By Melanie Burton; Editing by Saad Sayeed)

Vulcan in talks with producers to license lithium technology

A lithium technology startup backed by Rio Tinto expects to finalize a funding round in the next week to raise A$27.5 million ($17.9 million), even as the global lithium market struggles, its Melbourne-based CEO told Reuters.ElectraLith is developing a filtration technology that can extract lithium from brine deposits without using water or chemicals, which would be key in arid areas like Chile’s Atacama desert, and needs only small amounts of energy.“The lithium market is not great, venture capital markets aren’t great, (so) the fact we are about to close this round with an oversubscribed investor base … for us that’s fantastic,” CEO Charlie McGill told Reuters.Several companies, including Exxon Mobil, are competing to commercialize their own direct lithium extraction (DLE) technologies in an industry that is expected to grow to more than $10 billion in annual revenue within the next decade.DLE is expected to reshape the lithium market by speeding the production process of the metal used in EV batteries and electronics to hours or days, compared with months or longer with large evaporation ponds and open pit mines.ElectraLith’s DLE-R process, for which the company holds commercialization rights, filters brine through two membranes that extract lithium and turn it into lithium hydroxide, before injecting the remaining brine back into the aquifer.The group is working on how to scale the membrane for large projects while maintaining its properties, McGill said, and retains all commercial rights.ElectraLith plans to use funds raised to build its first pilot plant at Rio Tinto’s Rincon operations in Argentina, he said, adding the project is about a year from being ready to pilot.Two more pilot plants are set to follow. The firm is currently owned by venture capital firm IP Group, Rio Tinto and Monash University, where its membrane technology was developed under Professor Huanting Wang.By producing lithium hydroxide without water or chemicals, ElectraLith says it can compete at around half the cost of rivals, McGill said.“The availability of water in the regions where there are lithium mines is a major problem,” he said.In Utah, where it is working on a project with Australia-listed Mandrake Resources, water from the Colorado River basin has to flow to Las Vegas and Los Angeles.“You can’t get a water permit,” McGill said.“So we show up and we are like, ‘We don’t need water.'”(By Melanie Burton; Editing by Sonali Paul)

Rio Tinto-backed lithium tech startup set to raise second round of funds

Russian aluminum producer Rusal will cut output by more than 6% in response to high global alumina prices and as tight monetary policy and an economic slowdown dampen domestic demand for the metal, the company said on Monday.Rusal, the world’s largest aluminum producer outside China, said production would be reduced by 250,000 metric tons per year after disruption to bauxite supplies from Guinea and Brazil and output suspensions in Australia contributed to a surge in alumina prices this year.Alumina prices have more than doubled since the start of the year to more than $700 a ton. Aluminum, used in the construction, transport and packaging sectors, is up 11% this year.“As a result, the share of alumina in the cash cost of aluminum increased to over 50% compared to the normal level of 30-35%,” Rusal said, adding that there would be no job losses.The company did not say when the production cuts would begin.Rusal said it has to purchase more than a third of its alumina abroad at market prices. The company produced 3.85 million tons of aluminum in 2023, or 5.5% of global output.To compensate for the shortfall in alumina, Rusal increased purchases from China, India and Kazakhstan. It also bought a 30% stake in a Chinese alumina refinery in October 2023 and plans to build a new alumina refinery in Russia’s Leningrad region.The company operates 11 aluminum plants, including one in Sweden. It did not say at which plants it plans to cut production.It also blamed tight monetary policy for sluggish domestic demand for aluminum from the construction and automotive industries. Russia’s key interest rate was raised to 21% in October, its highest since 2003, in an effort to curb inflation.Rusal has also come under pressure as some Western consumers have shunned new deals for Russian metal, even though the Hong Kong-listed company is not directly targeted by Western sanctions over the war in Ukraine.In April, the London Metal Exchange banned deliveries of newly produced Russian aluminum, copper and nickel to LME-registered warehouses to comply with US and UK sanctions.The three-month aluminum contract on the London Metal Exchange was up 0.8% at $2,644 per metric ton by 0951 GMT, in line with gains in other industrial metals.(By Anastasia Lyrchikova, Polina Devitt and Gleb Bryanski; Editing by David Goodman and Susan Fenton)

Rusal to cut aluminum output by 6%

Miners at two copper mines in Zambia were rescued after being trapped underground following a nationwide power outage, the energy ministry said on Monday.Zambia suffered a nationwide blackout following a power system disturbance, the southern African nation’s state utility Zesco said on Sunday, which also affected neighbouring Zimbabwe.Zambia and Zimbabwe are experiencing prolonged hours of electricity rationing after the worst drought in decades in the region hit hydropower generation.Zambia’s energy permanent secretary Peter Mumba said miners were trapped at Mopani Copper Mines, which is majority owned by United Arab Emirates’ International Resources Holding, and at another Chinese mine.He did not say how many miners were trapped but said all of them had been rescued.Supply to all mining companies in Africa’s second-largest copper producer was fully restored by around 0130 GMT and by 0400 GMT to the rest of the country, Zesco Acting managing director Justin Longo said.Longo said the reason for the outage was being investigated, adding it could not have been caused by power generation at the Kariba dam as the output there was very low.Zambia’s largest hydroelectric power plant, the Kariba North Bank Power Station with an installed capacity of 1080 megawatts (MW), is currently producing only 120 MW due to lack of water.“We are just keeping the plant running with one unit, which is not even running at maximum capacity,” said Mukupa Mulenga, the station’s maintenance manager.(By Chris Mfula; Editing by Bhargav Acharya and Ed Osmond)

Zambia miners rescued after nationwide power outage

Iron ore futures strengthened on Monday, buoyed by stronger global steel production, although mounting trade tensions surrounding top consumer China capped gains.The most-traded January iron ore contract on China’s Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) ended daytime trade 0.84% higher at 781.5 yuan ($107.88) a metric ton.The contract had earlier risen as high as 791.0 yuan, its strongest since Nov. 8.The benchmark December iron ore on the Singapore Exchange was 1.61% higher at $102.2 a ton, as of 0710 GMT.Global crude steel output in October climbed 0.4% from the previous year to hit 151.2 million tons, World Steel Association data showed on Friday.In China, the world’s top metals producer and consumer of the metal, crude steel production rose 2.9% to 81.9 million tons over the same period, the data showed.Lower Chinese steel product inventory driven by robust exports also supported iron ore prices above $100 a ton, Westpac analysts said in a note.Meanwhile, Chinese exporters and policymakers are bracing for trade disruptions as US President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs in excess of 60% on all Chinese goods.The world’s second-largest economy could face nearly 40% tariffs on its exports to the US next year, said economists polled by Reuters, potentially slicing growth by up to 1 percentage point.The US on Friday banned a range of Chinese imports, including iron ore, over alleged forced labor involving the Uyghurs, according to a government notice posted online.Other steelmaking ingredients on the DCE lost ground, with coking coal and coke down 2.38% and 1.04%, respectively.Most steel benchmarks on the Shanghai Futures Exchange ticked lower. Rebar dropped about 0.2%, hot-rolled coil shed around 0.3%, stainless steel dipped 0.04%, although wire rod gained about 0.3%.($1 = 7.2441 Chinese yuan)(By Gabrielle Ng; Editing by Sumana Nandy)

Iron ore price rises on firmer steel outlook, but trade tensions cap gains

STOCKHOLM/GDANSK, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Northvolt's financial collapse deals a blow to Europe's plan to set up its own battery industry to power electric cars, stirring a debate about whether it needs to do more to attract investment as startups struggle to catch up with Chinese rivals.Europe's biggest hope for an electric vehicle battery champion filed for U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday after talks with investors and creditors including Volkswagen and Goldman Sachs for funding failed.The Swedish company, whose motto is "make oil history", has received more than $10 billion in equity, debt and public financing since its 2016 start-up. Volkswagen and Goldman Sachs each own about one fifth of its shares.Northvolt said on Friday it needed $1.0-$1.2 billion in new funds under the restructuring process, which it hopes will end by the end of March.In recent months, it has shrunk the business and cut jobs in a bid to shore up its finances. But it has struggled to produce sufficient volumes of high-quality batteries, and lost a 2 billion euro ($2.1 billion) contract from BMW (BMWG.DE), in June.That has left Europe's ambitions to build its own battery industry looking a distant dream.In recent years, Northvolt led a wave of European startups investing tens of billions of dollars to serve the continent's automakers as they switch from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles.But growth in EV demand is moving at a slower pace than many in the industry projected, and China has taken a huge lead in powering EVs, controlling 85% of global battery cell production, International Energy Agency data shows.Making batteries and cells, the units that store and convert chemical energy into electricity, is a delicate process and doing so at scale is a challenge for any battery maker.Northvolt has missed some in-house targets and curtailed production at its battery cells plant in northern Sweden, underscoring the difficulties, Reuters reported on Monday."The biggest issue is that batteries are not easy to make and Northvolt haven’t satisfied the supply demands of their customers - that is a management issue," said Andy Palmer, founder of consultancy Palmer Automotive said.“The Chinese are technologically 10 years ahead of the West in batteries. That’s a fact," he said.At least eight companies have postponed or abandoned EV battery projects in Europe this year, including China's Svolt and joint venture ACC, led by Stellantis (STLAM.MI), and Mercedes-Benz (MBGn.DE).In 2024, Europe's battery pipeline capacity out to 2030 has fallen by 176 gigawatt-hours, according to data firm Benchmark Minerals. That's equivalent to almost all the current installed capacity in Europe, according to Reuters calculations.RETHINKSome executives say Europe should do more to attract and support home-grown projects so they can compete with Chinese rivals such as CATL (300750.SZ), and BYD (002594.SZ), opens new tab."Europe needs to rethink how it supports a nascent sector before China eats up the entire value chain, which is due to smart planning," said James Frith, European head of Volta Energy Technologies, which specialises in battery and energy storage technology.Among its $5.8 billion in debts, Northvolt owes the European Investment Bank (EIB) some $313 million.EIB vice president Thomas Östros said it had been a constructive partner to Northvolt, but it needed to safeguard the EIB and EU's interests."It remains the case that Europe has a strategic interest in a European battery industry for electric cars and we will follow developments very closely. But it is much to early to say what the outcome will be," he said.The Swedish government has repeatedly said it does not plan to take a stake in Northvolt. On Friday, Northvolt's outgoing CEO and co-founder Peter Carlsson said he was a "little worried" Europe is giving up on its dream of competing with China.He said Europe would regret it in 20 years time if it retreated."It's not a straight journey and right now, we're all in a bit of a down in that journey where there's more hesitations, there's more questions on the speed of the transition from the carmakers, from policymakers, from the investor community," he told reporters in a call.Reporting by Marie Mannes in Stockholm, Stine Jacobsen in Copenhagen and Alessandro Parodi in Gdansk. Additional reporting by Simon Johnson in Stockholm. Writing by Josephine Mason. Editing by Mark Potter

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