LITHIUM RESERVES CHILE
India-Chile trade negotiations: A quiet and strategic deal beyond tariffs
India and Chile are progressing with negotiations for a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement to enhance trade relations. The agreement will focus on sectors such as digital services, critical minerals, and investment. Both nations seek to diversify their trade partnerships and reduce reliance on single markets, particularly in mineral exports.
India's private sector securing critical minerals abroad is need of the hour: G Kishan Reddy
Facilitating the domestic private sector to secure critical mineral assets abroad and transport them back home serves as the need of the hour for India, Union Minister of Coal and Mines G Kishan Reddy stated on the sidelines of the CII Global Summit in New Delhi.
Brazil emerges as major rare earths source for India
Brazil is actively courting foreign investment including from India while pushing to localise the refining and processing value chain. India and Brazil, South America's largest economy, had decided to fast-track collaboration in this sector during President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva''s state visit to India in February.
Chile offers India critical minerals play as CEPA talks near finish line
Chile is offering India significant opportunities in critical mineral mining, including copper, lithium, and cobalt. These minerals will power India's growth and green transition. Chile also seeks Indian talent for its burgeoning semiconductor sector. Both nations are working towards a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement. This partnership aims to secure India's supply chains and foster economic growth.
An FTA no one is talking about can give India a strategic edge
India is in advanced talks with Chile on a comprehensive free trade agreement that could give it long-term access to key critical minerals such as lithium, copper, cobalt and molybdenum, which are essential for electric vehicles, electronics and clean energy. At a time when mineral supply chains are becoming strategic tools in global politics, the proposed pact could support India’s manufacturing growth and energy transition.
Coal India board clears Chile arm for lithium, copper; approves over Rs 6,300cr investments
coal India: In a regulatory filing, CIL said it will hold 100 per cent equity in the proposed intermediate holding company in Chile. The incorporation will be subject to regulatory approvals from the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) and the Ministry of Coal.
India looks to stabilise supply of critical minerals via Latin America
India is actively pursuing stable critical mineral supply chains from Peru, Chile, and Argentina, aiming to bolster its renewable energy and green mobility sectors. High-level talks are underway with Peru, focusing on lithium, copper, and rare earth imports, while FTA negotiations with Chile are imminent. Argentina presents opportunities in critical minerals, energy, and agricultural products.
Europe's lithium quest hampered by China and lack of cash
To succeed, Europe needs to strengthen ties with lithium-rich nations and foster local electric vehicle markets.
India to seek lithium and copper under new trade tie from Chile to power clean energy and industrial growth, says experts
India aims to secure a stable supply of lithium and copper from Chile through an expanded trade agreement to support its clean energy transition and industrial growth.
It’s too late to China-proof the lithium supply chain
In Chile, which trails Australia as the 2nd-biggest producer of lithium, Chinese money is also dominant.
Yellen sees growing trade with Chile, a vital EV metal supplier
Chile has the world’s largest reserves of lithium and is the No. 2 supplier after Australia. That also makes it a vital partner for China, by far the top global EV producer, which last year bought about two-thirds of Chile’s lithium exports.
Jammu and Kashmir lithium reserves pique overseas interest
The federally administered region of Jammu and Kashmir in India is planning to auction its lithium reserves in the coming weeks, according to a government source. This move comes as India seeks to secure supplies of lithium, a vital component for electric vehicle batteries. Discussions with the Chilean government were also underway to secure lithium block.
From walnuts to wines: Chile caters to Indian taste
ProChile, a Chilean organization that promotes resource rich country globally, is keen to bring the Latin American agro-food varieties to India from apples to wines. Chilean food like kiwifruit, cherries, blueberries, apples, walnuts, and wines are becoming popular in India.
Anand Mahindra on what India needs to do to utilise lithium reserves found in Rajasthan
Leading industrialist Anand Mahindra on Tuesday hailed the discovery of lithium reserves in Rajasthan and called for quickly stepping up to install refining capacity of the crucial mineral in the country. In a tweet, he noted that China already has a lead when it comes to refining capacity.
One of the World’s lithium leaders looks like a shakier source
Chile is altering the way it extracts and produces lithium, with the government hoping to acquire the majority of new contracts with private organizations.
Chile's lithium nationalisation plans to get a fillip from new extraction technology
Direct lithium extraction technologies are designed to extract the metal from salty brines in Chile's Atacama Desert and elsewhere in the world using filters, membranes, ceramic beads or other equipment that can typically be housed in a small warehouse.
The great lithium push
India is now the eighth-largest lithium reserve country thanks to discovery in Jammu & Kashmir. This find has the potential to alter the speed of India’s decarbonisation. It puts India in much stronger position in the global critical materials trade, makes it attractive for investments in key forward-looking sectors.
Wired to the future
The good news is that reserves of lithium, a rare metal critical to build batteries for EVs, have been discovered in Mandya, 100 km from Bengaluru. This will bring the required breakthrough in local manufacturing of EV batteries. Researchers at the Atomic Minerals Directorate, a unit of the Atomic Energy Commission, have estimated lithium reserves of 14,100 tonnes in a small patch of land surveyed in the southern Karnataka district.
Rare good news from a rare metal: Reserves of lithium, critical for EV batteries, found near Bengaluru
India needs lithium for its energy needs, but there has been no comprehensive effort to map local reserves.
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