CORRECTION/WARNING:
After trying to negotiate a number of Chinese stories I’m not certain if either of the NSS plants - in Baotou Mongolia or the one in Changsha in south central Hunan are finished or able to have processed the Lionergy spodumene.
In Baotou there IS a Shanshan plant has been fully operational Since August 2017.... producing ‘negative polar materials ‘
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In August 2017 Shanshan shares opened an integrated base for the production of 100,000 tons of negative polar materials per year in Baotou....”
https://www.large.net/news/6pu43p6.html
Also in Baotou: Last October the Inner Mongolia China Daily reported Shanshan had just begun work on an additional production plant ..this time for anode materials.
http://innermongolia.chinadaily.com.cn/baotou/2018-10/11/c_281190.htm report
Work on a project to produce anode material for lithium ion batteries has begun in Jiuyuan district, Baotou, in Inner Mongolia autonomous region, according to a Baotou Daily report.
On completion the project, which is funded by Inner Mongolia Shanshan Technology Co with an investment of 3.8 billion yuan ($554 million), will produce 100,000 tons of lithium ion battery anode material annually.
The project involves building anode materials production lines including processing of coke raw materials, natural graphite, low temperature modification, carbonization, graphitization, finished product processing, testing, packaging and storage.
For the graphitization process, a base with an annual output of 50,000 tons will be located in Jiuyuan Industrial Park. It will require investment of 1.2 billion yuan and cover 23.3 hectares.
After being put into production, it is estimated that annual profit and tax revenue will reach 90 million yuan.
Meanwhile in Changsha in Hunan:
January 17, 2018 -
https://www.yicaiglobal.com/news/sh...-million-to-build-a-battery-plant-in-changsha - a story that’s been posted a few times already says : NSS is building a Plant “
projected to produce 100,000 tons of lithium ion battery materials each year”
“The factory is expected to complete construction and start trial production before year's end. The entire plant will be complete by the end of 2025,”
Then, also in Changsha :
April 25, 2019 -
Shanshan Energy, a unit under Ningbo Shanshan, planned to invest about 1.58 billion yuan to build a high-nickel cathode materials project with designed capacity of 28,800 mt/year in Changsha of Hunan province, the company said in a statement on Wednesday April 24.
https://news.metal.com/newscontent/...gh-nickel-cathode-materials-project-in-hunan/
Then I found another story saying the 2016 quality issue between Tianqi and Ningbo Shanshan was ‘just a spat”
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-rel...tungsten-tantalum--rare-earths-606783606.html... “
a spat between Tianqi and Shanshan became public, albeit over relatively minor volumes and on quality rather than price..”
I don’t consider issues worth $11.5 million to be a “spat”.
And I don’t know the difference between a cathode and an anode or what Shanshan has built, is building or will build .
I do know that in Hohhot they eat whole sheep and the winter temperatures in Mongolia rarely fall below 13.3 degrees Celsius.
But this exercise has proved people should DTOR.
Cheers
