The Washington Post article, page-6

dyeman...you missed this part of the article...which I find extremely interesting if true. $20,000 per ton? Yet we are showing sales to Japan at $6000 ?? Million dollars here....million dollars there? Anyone have a fix on accounting from Singapore?

It’s a good time to own a lithium plant. The market is feverish, with contract prices up 250 percent over the past five years and often spiking higher. This summer, Sales de Jujuy unloaded one 60-ton batch of battery-grade lithium carbonate for $20,000 a ton, twice what it usually sells for.
Now, plans are being drawn up to double the plant’s capacity to 34,000 tons a year.
That will be good for local people, said Losada-Calderon, general manager of the plant, which is on the Olaroz salt flat.