China lithium boom slows as sagging prices batter high-cost miners
15
Mar
China lithium boom slows as sagging prices batter high-cost miners Subject: Geography Section: Eco geography Context: The decline in lithium prices, essential for electric vehicle (EV) batteries, is negatively affecting China’s lithium mining industry, particularly the mining of lepidolite, a type of hard rock ore costly to process into lithium. Lithium is mined […]