China's lithium hub is under investigation over licensing, environmental concerns. mining miningnews
China’s central government has sent a working group to probe illegal mining in the country’s lithium hub Yichun, financial news outlet, citing sources, said the probe comes amid a “shutdown and rectification” of lithium producers in Yichun, a small city in southern Jiangxi province known by some as Asia’s lithium capital.
Yichun currently produces between 10,000 tons and 12,000 tons of lithium carbonate per month, it reported. “If production is suspended for a month, the affected scale may account for about 10% of the global market,” the analyst said. Yichun’s rich lithium reserves have led to a rapid expansion of the city’s mining industry that has brought large tax revenues to the local government.
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