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Lithium in the Terawatt-Hour Era with Adam Megginson from Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. After closely tracking and analysing a tumultuous 12 months for the lithium market, what lessons can we learn? What does the remainder of 2024 have in store for supply & demand, and how will this affect prices for this specialty chemical so vital to electrification? https://lnkd.in/ea48RwfK Save €150 with Discount Code 2428-SPK. #AABCEurope

Iron phosphate has garnered less attention than other #batterymetals like lithium, nickel and cobalt, primarily due to its lower price and apparent abundance of supply. But there is a growing need to understand the market of this China-centric chemical, which plays a critical role in determining #energy density in #LFP #batteries. In this article for the MMTA, Zihao Li at Fastmarkets dives into this developing market and how it is reshaping battery chemistries https://lnkd.in/e7wBEkTS Iron phosphate redefines preferences in the battery raw materials

If battery grade lithium carbonate and hydroxide is a “specialty chemical” that’s very very hard indeed to make, then why are specialty chemical producers “price takers” and not “price makers” as logic suggests they should be? Why are they forced to accept thin volume spot prices that industry experts assert are the equivalent of what former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating infamously described the Senate (upper house of parliament) as “unrepresentative swill”? Not representative of higher volume contract prices such as those used by Albemarle that just reported a US$618 million loss for the final quarter of 2023 after spot prices crashed 80% last year. That’s after firing 4% of “our people are our most valuable resource” - global workforce to save costs. If the world’s biggest specialty chemical producer is a price taker and not a price maker then is battery grade LCE really a specialty chemical? Or is it just a non-agricultural chemical that’s quite hard to make? Lots more to think about over Thursday afternoon coffee with LinkedIn. #lithium #specialtychemical #batterymetals #batterymaterials

💥Pre-calcined pet coke prices rise for second consecutive month after a near six month decline.💥 In February 2024, Benchmark's pre-calcined pet coke price increased by 3.4% on the back of consistent demand from battery anode end markets, despite the Spring Festival holiday period. Meanwhile, the supply picture tightened moderately, as some refineries and coking facilities paused production either for seasonal maintenance or in response to the persistent low price environment. Learn more about Benchmark's Synthetic Graphite Price Assessment ➡️  https://lnkd.in/exNSRUZM Contact us to request a sample report ➡️  https://lnkd.in/eQWKgmzt Pet Coke Prices 06MAR.png  

💡 This week, Benchmark announced that it has started a formal public consultation on changes to its Cobalt Price Assessment Methodology. Benchmark proposes to move two of its #cobalt price grades from semi-monthly to weekly frequency to give a more comprehensive assessment of price trends, with the remaining six price assessments being assessed on a two-weekly basis. Read more below ⬇ #cathode #criticalminerals

Sigma Lithium Corp. (Nasdaq:SGML) CEO Ana Cabral-Gardner joined Steve Darling from Proactive announcing the company's final shipment for 2023 of Quintuple Zero Green Lithium concentrate. This marks the end of a truly transformative year for the company. Cabral-Gardner explained that the fifth shipment of sustainable #lithium concentrate is en route to #Glencore at the Port of Vitoria and is expected to arrive before the end of the year. Glencore has agreed to prepay 50% of the shipment's value upon completion of loading. This prepayment reflects a provisional premium price for Sigma Lithium's unique Quintuple Zero Green Lithium concentrate. Watch at #Proactive #ProactiveInvestors #TSXV #NASDAQ #SGML http://ow.ly/Zeep10579rR

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First Phosphate Corp (CSE: PHOS) CEO John Passalacqua joined Steve Darling from Proactive to announce a significant development for the company - the signing of a Joint Development Agreement with Integrals Power Limited of Milton Keynes, United Kingdom. This agreement marks a crucial step forward in First Phosphate's efforts to produce battery-grade iron III #phosphate precursor for the lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery industry outside of China. Passalacqua explained that the agreement outlines an initial phase of joint development focused on creating the technology necessary for producing the iron phosphate precursor for LFP cathode active material (CAM). The goal is to develop a scalable, low-cost, and environmentally compliant process for manufacturing battery-grade iron III phosphate. Watch at #Proactive #ProactiveInvestors #CSE #PHOS http://ow.ly/MH6i105h2UN

Every commodity has a cost curve, with low cost and high cost producers. Each cost curve can be broken down into specific segments, with their own low and high cost producers. This applies to Lithium, regardless of the source, i.e. brines, clays, lepidolite, petalite, spodumene, and so on, there are low and high cost producers. Grade is often the go to metric - its easy - but metallurgy, cost environment, and proximity to inputs (labour, energy, reagents) and end markets, are also very important. https://lnkd.in/gWdtc4fp