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Just last week ",{"text":726,"type":575,"marks":727},"Liontown’s Kathleen Valley project in Western Australia",[728],{"type":580,"attrs":729},{"href":730,"uuid":49,"anchor":49,"target":49,"linktype":583},"https://source.benchmarkminerals.com/article/liontowns-kathleen-valley-produces-first-spodumene-concentrate-amid-uncertain-market-conditions",{"text":732,"type":575}," produced its first spodumene concentrate.",{"type":570,"attrs":734,"content":735},{"textAlign":49},[736],{"text":737,"type":575},"“For prices to tick higher we need to see a supply side response, and so far this has only happened with the small non-integrated players that sit at the top of the cost curve. 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Lithium hydroxide prices had slipped below the RMB 100,000 per tonne mark in April this year after briefly breaching that level in late December 2023. “In a downtrending […]",[760],{"slug":558,"name":559,"content":761},{"job_title":561,"image":762,"bio":564,"linkedin":565},{"filename":563},"\u003C!--#storyblok#{\"name\": \"article\", \"space\": \"\", \"uid\": \"a1641233-1d21-4e53-8e51-2561396063dc\", \"id\": \"\"}-->","article",[766,769],{"slug":767,"name":768},"critical-minerals","Critical Minerals",{"slug":770,"name":8},"lithium","private",{"id":49,"alt":682,"name":682,"focus":682,"title":682,"source":682,"filename":773,"copyright":682,"fieldtype":774,"meta_data":775,"is_external_url":51},"https://a.storyblok.com/f/287943243085208/2f1ff980e0/bm-bmiprices1.png","asset",{"alt":682,"title":682,"source":682,"copyright":682},"Aug 07, 2024","7th August 2024",[],[],1781107331787]