Welcome to the October 2019 edition of the lithium miner news. This past month saw generally slightly lower lithium prices and some forecasts that lithium prices could go even lower not helped by the recent EV sales slowdown and lithium oversupply. There was a lot of company news which is summarized at the end of this article.
Lithium spot and contract price news
During October, 99% lithium carbonate China spot prices were not available (AsianMetal.com). Spodumene (5% min) prices were down 1.62%. Trading Economics shows lithium prices down 0.73% for the past month.
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