Red-hot lithium boom pits Wall Street against the wonks

A view of a brine pool — part of a lithium mine on the Atacama salt flat in the Atacama desert in Chile. | REUTERS

There’s a fight brewing in the lithium market, after a controversial forecast from Goldman Sachs Group analysts set off a backlash among some of the industry’s most prominent experts. Lithium is a vital component of electric-vehicle batteries, which means the outlook for supply, demand and pricing is increasingly consequential. For years, a small group of

Myanmar’s junta vows to defend China-backed copper mine after PDF threats — Radio Free Asia

An excavator works on a section of the Letpadaung copper mine site in Sagaing region's Salingyi township, in a file photo. Credit: RFA

Myanmar’s junta has vowed to defend a suspended Chinese copper mine, seen as a key source of revenue for the military regime, after the country’s armed opposition threatened to destroy the project if owners resume operations. The Letpadaung copper mine in Sagaing’s Salingyi township is a joint venture between China’s state-owned Wanbao Co. and the

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