Australia can save the global lithium industry from the Chinese state

The lithium market structure hasn’t changed in over a decade. Most of Australia’s lithium-containing spodumene ore is still processed in China.

There is no spodumene hedging or storage outside China. If China is short term oversupplied, Australian miners can’t store their ore and wait for the market to improve, or sell it through futures contracts and finance it in the interim.…

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