Overall, more than 90% of Africa’s supply this decade will come from entities at least partly owned by Chinese firms, estimates Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, a consultancy. China’s urgency is spurred by its desire to maintain dominance of supply chains. China has 8% of global lithium reserves but refines 60-70% of the metal.
Lithium technologies are expected to advance quickly over the next few years. However, companies in China and beyond are frantically pursuing alternative batteries not centred around lithium, in part because the minerals needed to make the current options come from just a few countries.
China has established a strong foothold in the battery supply chain through its extensive control over global mineral resources, securing significant stakes in cobalt mines in Africa and lithium sources in Latin America. However, China’s ambitions go beyond control over raw materials.
They carry loads from Arcadia, Africa’s biggest lithium mine, opened this year by Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt, a Chinese firm. “China is buying any lithium it can find,” says a local industry insider. “There’s an absolute feeding frenzy.” China’s dash for lithium is part of a bigger challenge for the West.
Yet China remains ahead. In 2022 the value of its imports of minerals and energy was double those of America and the EU combined (see chart 1), according to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a think-tank in Washington. Its role in Africa’s lithium boom shows why.
But it has competition. Last month, Africa’s first Chinese-owned lithium concentrate plant started trial production at Arcadia, in Zimbabwe. That mine was bought by Huayou Cobalt in 2021 for $US422 million, part of a recent billion-dollar wave of Chinese lithium deals in a country where many Western investors fear to tread.
Lithium technologies are expected to advance quickly over the next few years. However, companies in China and beyond are frantically pursuing alternative batteries not centred around lithium, in part because the minerals …
Chinese miners and refiners are driving a surge in African lithium output, shrugging off concerns over a glut to lock in future supplies of the critical battery metal.
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Chinese miners and refiners are driving a surge in African lithium output, shrugging off concerns over a glut to lock in future supplies of the critical battery metal.
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Xinfeng, a Chinese exploration company active in Erongo, has mined tens of thousands of tonnes of raw lithium ore and shipped it to China. The battery boom
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Faced with China''s dominance of the lithium supply chain, Western officials are pitching their investment offer to African countries as a more socially responsible alternative.
China has established a strong foothold in the battery supply chain through its extensive control over global mineral resources, securing significant stakes in cobalt mines in …
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Lithium technologies are expected to advance quickly over the next few years. However, companies in China and beyond are frantically pursuing alternative batteries not …