Recent searches

No recent searches

Search options

Only available when logged in.
mastodon.world is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Generic Mastodon server for anyone to use.

Administered by:

Server stats:

8.4K
active users

mastodon.world: AboutStatusProfiles directoryPrivacy policy

Mastodon: AboutGet the appKeyboard shortcutsView source codev4.4.0

#lithium

13 posts12 participants0 posts today
Fou

Australian scientists have developed a pioneering eco-friendly technique - using moderate heat from sunlight or industrial waste - to extract valuable materials, such as lithium for batteries, from brine deposits, according to findings published in the London-based journal Nature Water. - PDNews

#Lithium#Australia
ABC Feeds

Price low but hopes high as $1b Australian lithium mine opens
By Jarrod Lucas

WA's newest lithium mine — the $951 million Kathleen Valley project — has officially opened in the northern Goldfields amid ongoing uncertainty for the critical minerals sector.

abc.net.au/news/2025-07-10/new

ABC News · Billion-dollar Kathleen Valley lithium mine officially opens in WA amid low pricesBy Jarrod Lucas
#Lithium#CompanyNews#Industry
Miguel Afonso Caetano

"China has the world’s top EV industry and dominates the global lithium supply chain: About 70% of all lithium is processed there. As other nations race to catch up, Beijing has leaned into its long-standing role as a major investor in mining in Africa. In Zimbabwe, China’s relations with the government are particularly close, dating to when it backed eventual dictator Robert Mugabe’s guerilla faction during the struggle for liberation in the 1960s. Mugabe’s successor, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has supported Chinese takeovers of lithium mines, arguing they will bring economic growth for a country where close to half the population lives in poverty.

But many residents in mining areas in Zimbabwe say the relationship with China is one of exploitation. The lithium boom has created little benefit for their communities, they argue, and in many ways has harmed them. Residents say they’ve been displaced from their homes by expanding operations at Chinese-run mines with little or no compensation. They say farmland has been degraded and water supplies contaminated. Some residents have complained that well-paying jobs in the mines are often filled by workers imported from China or Zimbabwe’s cities, while unions have criticized conditions and pay. Security crackdowns at the mines have resulted in arrests of illicit miners.

“China is seeing Zimbabwe as a colony, and it has marked it as its territory,” Farai Maguwu, executive director of the Centre for Natural Resource Governance, a research and advocacy group in Harare, told Rest of World. Zimbabwe’s mining sector has long been allegedly intertwined with the financial interests of government and military elites. But Maguwu accused Beijing of helping to further an environment of unaccountability in which Zimbabwe’s leaders “don’t take action to protect the integrity of their own people” — echoing critiques of Chinese mining operations around the continent."

restofworld.org/2025/zimbabwe-

A worker in a blue uniform and hard hat walks along a rocky ledge in a quarry, holding a tool, with layered hills and rocky terrain visible in the background under a clear blue sky.
Rest of World · Dangerous mines: A death at the bottom of the EV supply chainIn Zimbabwe, the EV rush has brought a surge of Chinese investment into lithium mines. But many locals feel left out — and some have turned to stealing.
#Africa#Zimbabwe#Lithium
Tino Eberl

Die weltweite #Lithium-Nachfrage steigt stark, besonders für #Elektroauto-Batterien.

Bis 2030 könnte sie sich vervier- bis verachtfachen. Das meiste #Lithium stammt derzeit aus #Australien und #Chile, doch #Lateinamerika, besonders das „#Lithiumdreieck“, wird künftig wichtiger.

#Europa droht ein Engpass, da der Eigenbedarf das Förderpotenzial deutlich übersteigt.

heise.de/news/Knappes-Lithium-

heise online · Knappes Lithium: Wo der Rohstoff noch zu finden istBy Leonard Fischer
#Rohstoffe#Energiewende#Batterietechnologie
Chuck Darwin

The US company #Techmet
is likely to bid in the first pilot project of the Ukraine-US joint Reconstruction Investment Fund

on a #lithium #mine in the centre of the country,

Ukraine’s first deputy prime minister, Yulia Svyrydenko, writing on Facebook, reported on a meeting between Zelenskyy and US businesses,

with much of the focus on the fund, meant to exploit Ukrainian minerals and rare earths.

Svyrydenko said Ukraine hoped to have three pilot projects up and running in the first 18 months of operation,

including the lithium mine in Kirovohrad region.

theguardian.com/world/2025/jul

The Guardian · Ukraine war briefing: Trump says he ‘didn’t make any progress’ with Putin after callBy Guardian staff reporter
Informationsstelle Peru e.V.

La brutal caída de la economía del litio en las baterías de vehículos eléctricos
La noticia de esta semana de que la segunda mayor minera de litio del mundo, SQM, comenzó a despedir al 5% de su fuerza laboral chilena no sería una sorpresa para quienes siguen el mercado de la materia prima para baterías. #Lithium #Bergbau
Los precios de las baterías de litio se han desplomado desde que alcanzaron un pico hace menos de tres años.
ocmal.org/la-brutal-caida-de-l

www.ocmal.orgLa brutal caída de la economía del litio en las baterías de vehículos eléctricos | Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina
TrendingLive feeds
About