Raw Lithium Exports Banned in Zimbabwe as Demand and Prices Soar
- Mining companies will need written permission to export
- Measure aimed at encouraging local processing of metal
A worker at a lithium mine in Goromonzi, Zimbabwe in January.
Photographer: Tafadzwa Ufumeli/Getty Images
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Zimbabwe has banned the export of unprocessed raw lithium with immediate effect as part of efforts to have the key raw material in electric-vehicle batteries processed locally.
“No lithium bearing ores, or unbeneficiated lithium whatsoever, shall be exported from Zimbabwe to another country” without written permission, an order issued by Mines Minister Winston Chitando states.