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To: LoneClone who wrote (170112)	2/15/2023 1:46:42 PM
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Australia’s Bid to Break China’s Lithium Dominance Hit by Delay ca.finance.yahoo.com James Fernyhough Tue, February 14, 2023 at 3:22 p.m. PST·1 min read (Bloomberg) -- Australia’s ambition to ease China’s stranglehold on production of a key battery compound has hit further hurdles after Wesfarmers Ltd. said its lithium refinery would be delayed by six months. The start of the plant in Western Australia, which seeks to produce enough lithium hydroxide for a million electric vehicles a year, has been pushed back to the first half of 2025, the mining and retail conglomerate said Wednesday. Tensions with China have prompted the US and Europe to look for alternative supply to the compounds critical to the decarbonisation of transport, with Australia’s status as the world’s biggest lithium miner making it a promising alternative processing hub. Those ambitions have been boosted by President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which grants tax credits on EVs that are built with materials produced by allies. Two other Western Australia refineries — one led by China’s Tianqi Lithium Corp. and the other by US lithium giant Albemarle Corp. — are yet to begin commercial-scale export after delays and cost blowouts. Wesfarmers’ refinery south of Perth is a venture with Chile’s SQM, the world’s biggest lithium producer after Albemarle.