Tag: lithium
Olaf Scholz’s South American tour, in search of lithium for the automotive industry
By Peter April Published yesterday at 6:25 p.m., Update yesterday at 6:25 p.m. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Chilean President Gabriel Boric meet on Sunday at the Moneda Palace in…
Lithium: Eramet and Electricité de Strasbourg plan to extract 10,000 tonnes per year in Alsace
In October 2022, the French industrial minerals group Imerys announced that it was planning to build the second largest European lithium mine in the Massif Central by 2027. CARLOS BARRIA…
Bolloré Logistics fire: nearly 12,000 lithium batteries in the building, what repercussions for health?
Samir Rahmoun January 17, 2023 at 11:50 a.m. 8 © Firefighters of France A fire ravaged a Bolloré Logistics site late yesterday afternoon, where lithium batteries were stored. More than…
A Bolloré Logistics building containing lithium batteries on fire near Rouen
A major fire was underway Monday evening in an industrial building of Bolloré Logistics containing lithium batteries located in Grand-Couronne, south of Rouen, we learned from the firefighters and the…
Zimbabwe bans export of ‘raw’ lithium to develop local battery industry
Samir Rahmoun January 02, 2023 at 4:00 p.m. 11 © Shutterstock The government of Zimbabwe has decided to ban the export of lithium from its mines. With this new rule,…
Europe strengthens ties with Chile to get its hands on its precious lithium
By Anne Rovan Published yesterday at 5:59 p.m., Update yesterday at 5:59 p.m. Antonia Urrejola, Chile’s foreign minister (left), and Josep Borrell, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs, at…
Lithium: Vulcan Energy extends its exploitation project to France
The lithium race is intensifying in France with the development of “Zero Carbon Lithium” launched by the Australian startup. The Australian start-up Vulcan Energy, at the head of the largest…
France launches a lithium mine project to ensure its sovereignty
The French group Imerys plans to extract 34,000 tonnes of this metal per year in the Allier. It is an absolutely major project for the industrial independence of France which…
How does China dominate the global lithium market?
Sébastien Le Belzic (in Beijing), edited by Juliette Moreau Alvarez 07:36, October 25, 2022modified to 7:40 a.m., October 25, 2022 In the lithium race, China is far ahead. To maintain…
34,000 tonnes of lithium will be produced in France each year from 2028
It is in the Allier, at Échassières, that the global industrial giant Imerys will exploit, from 2028, a lithium deposit in the basement of an open pit mine which already…
A first lithium mine will be operated in France, with the aim of equipping 700,000 vehicles with batteries per year
Diffuse granite and lithium on a drill core, on the Beauvoir mine site, in Echassières (Allier), October 21, 2022. JÉRÔME CHABANNE/HANS LUCAS FOR “THE WORLD” World leader in mineral specialties…
Batteries: France wants the largest lithium mine in Europe, in the Massif Central
Alexander Boero October 24, 2022 at 11:40 a.m. 33 © Shutterstock The French group Imerys will launch, in the Allier, the exploitation of one of the largest European mines of…