On Monday the company closed a US$996 million ($1.6bn) loan, including US$968m in principal and US$28m of capitalised interest, a US$268m mark up from a conditional loan announced for its Rhyolite ...
The metal is present in the minerals spodumene and lepidolite and was discovered in 1800 by Brazilian chemist and statesman José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva in a mine on the Swedish island of Utö.