ILHMF - Lithium Miners News For The Month Of December 2018
Welcome to the December 2018 edition of the lithium miner news. This past month saw China lithium prices continue to stabilize and the major lithium players on an acquisition spree (a US$4.1b lithium purchase by Tianqi and another large agreement to purchase of US$1.1b by Albemarle).
Lithium spot and contract price news
During December, 99% lithium carbonate China spot prices were down 0.65%. Spodumene (6% LiO2) prices (as reported recently by MIN in H2 2018) are ~US$930.80/dmt [CIF].
Metal Bulletin reports 99.5% lithium carbonate battery grade spot prices cif China, Japan & Korea of