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    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      Albemarle warns of losing lithium market share to China as prices fall

      World’s biggest producer has scaled back its growth plans at a time when Chinese rivals pursue development

      A pool of brine containing lithium carbonate and a mound of salt bi-product
    • Monday, 16 October, 2023
      Albemarle abandons Australian lithium deal after Gina Rinehart builds stake

      US company has walked away from a $4.2bn takeover of Liontown citing ‘growing complexities’

      Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart
    • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
      Hancock Prospecting Pty Ltd
      Australia’s richest person raises stake in lithium producer, threatening $4.3bn takeover

      Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting is muscling in on Albemarle’s mine proposal

      Gina Rinehart smiles in a portrait picture
    • Monday, 2 October, 2023
      LexMining
      Rinehart/Liontown: heavy metal billionaire seeks something lighter Premium content

      Albemarle’s margin for victory over buying lithium miner reduces every time Hancock increases its stake

      Gina Rinehart, centre, during the construction of Roy Hill mine in the Pibara region, Western Australia in 2014
    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      Lex
      Albemarle/Liontown: US lithium producer willing to pay up down under Premium content

      If the chemical group’s bid for the Australian company goes ahead, it will be one of the biggest lithium mining deals to date

      Aerial view of pool of brine containing lithium carbonate
    • Friday, 21 April, 2023
      Chile
      Chile’s president moves to bring lithium under state control

      Leftwing leader Gabriel Boric also promises to impose stricter environmental rules

      A worker stirs lithium with his hand in Chile
    • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
      Albemarle cites Biden’s green subsidies package as it raises guidance

      Group says US Inflation Reduction Act will boost electric car demand

      An Albemarle mine in Chile
    • Thursday, 29 December, 2022
      Lithium
      World’s biggest lithium producer bets on prices staying high despite supply rush

      Albemarle says market for key battery metal transformed by electric vehicle sales

      An Albemarle lithium mine in the Antofagasta region of Chile
    • Saturday, 19 November, 2022
      Commodities
      Livent warns of lithium roadblock to rollout of electric cars

      CEO says supply crunch will hit cheaper models hardest as manufacturers prioritise more profitable vehicles

      People looking at a Tesla car on display at a showroom in Beijing
    • Sunday, 7 August, 2022
      Batteries
      Carmakers face fierce battle for lithium until 2030, warns top producer

      US company Albemarle says market will remain tight for the next seven to eight years

      An Albemarle lithium mine in Chile
    • Friday, 9 August, 2019
      Industrial metals
      Albemarle to delay construction plans as lithium prices fall

      World’s top producer of metal used in batteries aims to reduce capital expenditure by $1.5bn

      Lithium prices have fallen 12.3 per cent this year
    • Thursday, 21 February, 2019
      Shares in Albemarle jump by 6 per cent on bullish lithium forecast
    • Wednesday, 21 November, 2018
      Lithium producer Albemarle takes $1.15bn stake in Australian mine
    • Tuesday, 27 February, 2018
      Batteries
      Shares of lithium producers rattled by gloomy forecast

      Albemarle and SQM hit as Morgan Stanley warns metal price may plunge 45 per cent

      A worker walks past a pile of lithium ore at a Talison Lithium Ltd. site, a joint venture between Tianqi Lithium Corp. and Albemarle Corp., in Greenbushes, Australia, on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017. Rising Chinese demand for lithium-ion batteries needed for electric vehicles and energy storage is driving significant price gains and an asset boom in Australia, already the world's largest lithium producer. Photographer: Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg
    • Thursday, 18 January, 2018
      US & Canadian companies
      Lithium stocks slide after SQM gets approval to ramp up production
    • Wednesday, 17 January, 2018
      The Short ViewAlan Livsey
      Focus on electric cars lights up lithium

      Demand for metal used in rechargeable batteries looks healthy but supply is growing

      A worker walks past a pile of lithium ore at a Talison Lithium Ltd. site, a joint venture between Tianqi Lithium Corp. and Albemarle Corp., in Greenbushes, Australia, on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017. Rising Chinese demand for lithium-ion batteries needed for electric vehicles and energy storage is driving significant price gains and an asset boom in Australia, already the world's largest lithium producer. Photographer: Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg
    • Sunday, 16 April, 2017
      Batteries
      Chile leverages its lithium with manufacturing incentives

      Companies bid on projects tied to the country’s vast reserves

      An aerial view shows the brine pools and processing areas of the Soquimich (SQM) lithium mine on the Atacama salt flat, the world's second largest salt flat and the largest lithium deposit currently in production, with over a quarter of the world's known reserves, in the Atacama desert of northern Chile, January 10, 2013.
    • Thursday, 16 March, 2017
      Companies
      Albemarle boosts lithium demand forecast on faster electric vehicle uptake
    • Friday, 9 December, 2016
      FTfmJohn Dizard
      Obama’s environmental whiplash for US carmakers

      Trump may find EPA fuel-economy standards have surprising longevity, says John Dizard

      Car exhaust fumes. Pollution in the atmosphere.
    • Monday, 28 November, 2016
      Batteries
      Lithium supply predicted to keep up with demand

      Albemarle CEO says production will keep pace with growth of electric vehicles

      Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia ID 72224702 © Kseniya Ragozina | Dreamstime.com Salt lake - Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia
    • Friday, 17 June, 2016
      European companies
      BASF buys Chemetall surface treatment unit for $3.2bn

      German chemicals group makes largest purchase since 2011

      The BASF headquarters stand in Ludwigshafen, Germany, on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010. BASF SE, the world's biggest chemical company, made a smaller-than-expected cut to its annual dividend and pledged the reduction will be a temporary blemish in its payout history as earnings improve this year. Photographer: Hannelore Foerster/Bloomberg
    • Tuesday, 15 July, 2014
      US & Canadian companies
      Chemicals maker Albemarle to buy Rockwood for $6.2bn
    • Thursday, 26 May, 2011
      Commodities
      Chinese rare earth metals prices soar
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