Zimbabwe lithium is now shipped as processed sulphate, not raw ore, after a $400m Chinese-built plant and an export ban aimed at keeping value at home.
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Key Facts
—A first for the continent: Zimbabwe has shipped its first batches of lithium sulphate, a processed battery material, rather than raw ore.
—Chinese-built plant: The product comes from the Arcadia mine near Harare, run by Prospect Lithium Zimbabwe, a unit of China’s Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt.
—The investment: Huayou spent about US$400 million on the plant, which can make up to 50,000 tonnes of lithium sulphate a year.
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