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Zimbabwe’s Minister for Mines and Mining
line to the project and is working very closely
Development Winston Chitando to see first-
with Prospect to get the site designated as
hand how Prospect is delivering battery
a Special Economic Zone, for to the second
grade lithium carbonate.
phase of the project which will deliver a lithium chemical plant adjacent to the
The key reasons behind Prospect building a
existing site.
lithium carbonate pilot are two-fold. One is to demonstrate its commitment to providing
In February 2018, Prospect commissioned a
greater beneficiation to the government
lithium carbonate pilot plant located in the
of Zimbabwe. Two is to provide greater
city of Kwekwe, which was recently visited by
profitability margins for the company. “We will initially be exporting 240,000 tonnes of concentrate primarily to China and a lot of that is just rocks going on holiday,” Greaves quips. “With a chemical plant we gain the ability to turn that concentrate into lithium carbonate in-country,