Battery metal miners face new challenge

Falling prices and rising costs are starting to hurt lithium producers with one of the world’s top investment banks describing the lithium rush underway in Australia as “hard rock market madness”.

03 June 2019
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JP Morgan, which is heavily involved with companies producing the lightweight battery metal, said tight profit margins were forcing supply cuts but not enough to overcome a price damaging surplus.

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