SQM News and Press, Sociedad Quimica y Minera S.A. From 01/24/20

Welcome to the January 2020 edition of the lithium miner news. This past month saw lithium prices very slightly lower, and a quite month of news from the lithium miners. The Bloomberg forecast of battery "prices are projected to fall to around $100/kWh by 2023" is significant, as at US$100/kWh...

Chile's environmental regulator has appealed a lower court decision against SQM's ( SQM -0.9% ) remediation plan that had called into question the miner's $380M production expansion project. More news on: Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A., Commodities news, Read more ......

Lithium producers are rallying this week, as investors bet on a rebound in electric car sales in China after government assurances its subsidies for buyers would not be cut further, Financial Times reports. More news on: Albemarle Corporation, Sociedad Química y Minera de Ch...

With electric vehicle (EV) sales and energy storage forecasts increasing at an unstoppable speed, many believe the 2020s will be the decade for lithium and other battery metals .  Despite having a tough couple of years, with prices declining at a rapid pace, experts agree that lithiu...

Lithium is a rare metal that is the backbone to almost all current batteries. Batteries have been around for decades, but electric vehicles ("EVs") are the most recent cause for the surge in demand for lithium ion batteries. This recent surge in demand has caused lithium miners to up their gam...

Explosive growth in the electric vehicle (EV) market over the coming decade is expected to translate into record demand for battery materials including lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide . Currently, the majority of the world’s lithium comes from the salars of the South America...

Lithium producer Sociedad Quimica y Minera ( SQM -1.1% ) is lower after Chile's First Environmental Court upheld a complaint by indigenous communities in the Atacama Desert about the company's use of water. More news on: Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A., Commodities news, ...

Welcome to the December 2019 edition of the lithium miner news. This past month saw lithium prices fall again. Most experts are saying the bottom is very close and that lithium prices should pick up in H2 2020. Lithium spot and contract price news During December, 99% lithium carbonate C...

Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile (NYSE: SQM) and Albemarle (NYSE: ALB) are two of the largest lithium producers in the world. Both companies harvest valuable lithium from the rich salt flats in Chile to be used for batteries in electric vehicles (EVs) , conventional batteries, and som...

This article first appeared in Trend Investing on November 20, 2019; therefore, all data is as of this date. Europe and China will lead the way in reducing vehicle emissions in 2020, as governments tighten emission standard rules. In Europe, fines could reach 34 billion euros (~US$37.5...