The “Zabaykalsky lithium” company, a new resident of the “Transbaikalia” Advanced Development Territory (ASEZ), will create an enterprise for the production of lithium concentrate with a capacity of up to 75 thousand tons per year. The products will replace imports from Belgium, China, the Republic of Korea and the UK. Under an agreement with the Corporation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic, the volume of investments will exceed 1 billion rubles, 128 jobs will be created.
The organization of lithium production in Russia
is of strategic importance, taking into account the growing needs of economic
sectors in this rare metal. The processing of the products of the new
enterprise will allow Russian plants to produce about 5 thousand tons of
lithium carbonate per year for 15-16 years. The products are used in the
manufacture of glass and ceramics, protective coatings, lubricants, and are
used in nuclear power, medicine, metallurgy and other areas of industrial
production.
