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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Zimbabwe wants lithium miners operating in the country to work towards producing battery-grade lithium locally and could impose a tax on exports of lithium concentrate in future, Mines minister Winston Chitando said last Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The southern African country holds significant reserves of lithium, a battery mineral which is vital to the global drive towards cleaner energy technologies, which Zimbabwe hopes will help revive its ailing economy.<\/p>\n

Chinese firms including Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt, Sinomine Resource Group, Chengxin Lithium Group and Canmax Technologies have spent more than US$1 billion over the past two years to acquire and develop lithium projects in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n

Some of these companies\u2019 projects have started production and are expected to build up to a combined annual output of nearly 1,5 million tonnes of lithium concentrates over the next year.<\/p>\n

Last year, Zimbabwe banned the export of unprocessed lithium ore to stop rampant digging and smuggling of the mineral by artisanal miners, ordering that only lithium concentrates could be exported.<\/p>\n

It now wants miners to go beyond the production of concentrates, which are shipped for further processing outside the country, mostly to China.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, what the government wants is to move up the value chain, but it won\u2019t happen overnight,\u201d Chitando said in an address at the Zimbabwe Chamber of Mines annual general meeting.<\/p>\n

He added that some lithium miners had plans to eventually produce battery-grade lithium locally.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs government, once we have an entity which can value-add beyond lithium concentrates and go a stage higher, two things will happen; the extreme case will be to ban the export of lithium concentrates, which won\u2019t happen, or we will impose a levy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Huayou, which invested about US$700 million to acquire and develop Zimbabwe\u2019s Arcadia lithium mine in 2022, said in June last year it could not commit to producing battery-grade lithium in the near term.<\/p>\n

The company, China\u2019s top cobalt refiner, said Zimbabwe, like most African countries, lacked renewable power and key materials needed to produce battery-grade lithium, such as natural gas and chemicals, whose importation would be unaffordable.<\/p>\n

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