Producer · Senior · Lithium · Australia · Chile · USA
Last updated 21 June 2026
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Operating · 6 projects
Salar de Atacama / La Negra
Asset · Operating
Project information
As at 31 December 2025
Description
As at 31 December 2025
Albemarle's flagship lithium brine operation on the Salar de Atacama, the largest salt flat in Chile, with conversion at the nearby La Negra plant (three boron-removal, three Ca/Mg-removal and three lithium carbonate plants plus a lithium chloride plant). Brine (1,500-6,000 mg/L Li) is pumped to evaporation ponds for 18-24 months, then trucked to La Negra. Operates under a CORFO contract (amended 2017) running until quota exhaustion or January 1, 2044, with commissions on sales and community commitments; the reserve plan is truncated at September 2041 per the authorized quota. An early warning plan governs pumping rates around protected systems; direct lithium extraction with re-injection and the Salar Yield Improvement plant are being studied to lift output within the quota. Site has its own powerhouse and groundwater rights.
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Greenbushes
Asset · Operating · Ownership 49%
Project information
As at 31 December 2025
Description
As at 31 December 2025
Hard-rock open-pit spodumene mine ~250 km south of Perth, Western Australia - the world's premier lithium pegmatite (Central Lode over 3 km long plus the Kapanga deposit) - operated by Talison Lithium, 100%-owned by the Windfield joint venture in which Albemarle holds 49% (Tianqi Lithium the remainder; Albemarle's interest acquired with Rockwood in 2015). Lithium production has run continuously for more than 20 years. Three processing plants operate on site (two chemical-grade, one technical-grade); construction of the third chemical-grade plant is complete with commercial production expected during 2026. Chemical-grade concentrate ships to Albemarle's Meishan, Qinzhou and Xinyu plants in China. Reserves rose 7% in 2025 (cut-off grade lowered from 0.7% to 0.5% Li2O). Tenements ~10,000 ha; ALB 49% share of gross asset value ~$1.1bn. Albemarle reports its 49% attributable share.
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Wodgina
Asset · Operating · Ownership 50%
Project information
As at 31 December 2025
Description
As at 31 December 2025
Hard-rock open-pit spodumene mine ~110 km south-southeast of Port Hedland, Western Australia, held 50/50 through the MARBL joint venture with Mineral Resources Limited (MRL), which operates the mine; Albemarle's interest reduced from 60% to 50% in the October 2023 MARBL restructuring. Pegmatite deposits mined intermittently since 1902 (tin, tantalum, beryl, lithium); MRL upgraded the site to a 750 ktpa spodumene plant producing 6% concentrate, completed 2019. Facilities include a three-stage crushing plant, concentration plant, camp, gas-fired power station and bore fields; ALB 50% share of gross asset value ~$414.4M. Reserves decreased 9% in 2025 on pit-design updates and depletion. Tenements sit within the Karriyarra native title claim under a March 2001 Land Use Agreement.
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Silver Peak
Asset · Operating
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As at 31 December 2025
Description
As at 31 December 2025
Lithium brine operation in Clayton Valley, Esmeralda County, Nevada - in continuous operation since 1966 and the only producing lithium brine site in the United States. Covers over 13,500 acres (10,500+ owned), with rights to all economically recoverable lithium in the Clayton Valley Basin under a 1991 settlement agreement, senior water rights and land claims. Brine is concentrated by solar evaporation and converted to technical-grade lithium carbonate and hydroxide on site. The reserve plan runs ~28 years to 2053 with a ramp to sustainable pumping of 20,000 acre-feet per year (fixed sustaining capital ~$284M through ramp-up, then ~$20M/yr).
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Magnolia
Asset · Operating
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As at 31 December 2025
Description
As at 31 December 2025
Bromine brine extraction and production site at Magnolia, Arkansas (Specialties segment), producing fire safety solutions, bromine, inorganic bromides, agricultural intermediates and tertiary amines from Smackover formation brine wells. All economic bromine accumulations within the production lease are classified as reserves (no separate resource estimate); bromine concentration varies across the field and can range over 6,600 mg/L.
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JBC (Safi, Jordan)
Asset · Operating · Ownership 50%
Project information
As at 31 December 2025
Description
As at 31 December 2025
Jordan Bromine Company (JBC), a consolidated 50/50 joint venture with Arab Potash Company (APC) established in 1999, on a 33-hectare site at Safi on the southeastern edge of the Dead Sea. Concentrated bromide-enriched brine from APC's evaporation ponds (8,775 ppm bromide basis) feeds the plant, which began operating in 2002 and doubled capacity in 2017. Reserves reflect plant capability through 2058 when the APC concession from the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan ends; JBC consumes only ~1% of Jordan's share of Dead Sea bromine (Dead Sea contains an estimated 666Mt of bromine; ALB-attributable measured bromide-ion resource 162.43Mt). Plant recovery 82%; forecast bromine prices $2,690-$4,890/t.
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Exploration · 2 projects
Antofalla
Asset · Exploration
Project information
As at 31 December 2025
Description
As at 31 December 2025
Undeveloped lithium brine property in the Antofalla salar within Catamarca Province, Argentina (100% Albemarle, exploration stage). Resource amounts are reported as metric tonnes of contained lithium metal with brine concentrations in mg/L.
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Kings Mountain
Asset · Exploration
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As at 31 December 2025
Description
As at 31 December 2025
Hard-rock lithium property in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, where Albemarle holds mineral rights with available lithium resources (exploration stage); the historic mine is being advanced toward restart as a US spodumene source. A planned commercial-scale lithium concentrator is expected to produce approximately 420,000 tons of spodumene concentrate annually, supported by an approximately $150 million U.S. Department of Energy grant announced in 2022 and a $90 million U.S. Department of Defense critical materials award announced in 2023 ($25.2 million received since inception). The co-located Kings Mountain conversion facility produces technical and battery-grade lithium hydroxide, lithium salts and battery-grade lithium metal products.
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Processing facilities · 3 projects
China Conversion Plants (Meishan, Qinzhou, Xinyu)
Segment · Operating
Project information
As at 31 December 2025
Description
As at 31 December 2025
Albemarle's operating owned lithium conversion network in China: Meishan (technical and battery-grade lithium hydroxide), Qinzhou (lithium carbonate plus technical and battery-grade hydroxide) and Xinyu (technical and battery-grade hydroxide). The plants process chemical-grade spodumene concentrate shipped from Talison's Greenbushes mine and absorbed production transferred from the Chengdu plant after its 2025 move to care and maintenance; most China production is sold within China or other Asian countries.
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Chengdu
Asset · Suspended
Project information
As at 31 December 2025
Description
As at 31 December 2025
Technical and battery-grade lithium hydroxide conversion plant in Chengdu, China, placed into care and maintenance during 2025 as part of Albemarle's cost-structure optimization, with production transferred to the company's other processing facilities in China.
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Kemerton
Asset · Suspended
Project information
As at 31 December 2025
Description
As at 31 December 2025
Lithium hydroxide conversion plant near Bunbury, Western Australia, wholly owned since the October 2023 MARBL restructuring (remaining 40% acquired from MRL; ~$180M consideration within a ~$380M payment). Construction of Trains 3 and 4 was stopped and Train 2 placed into care and maintenance in 2024; in February 2026 Albemarle announced Train 1 would also be placed into care and maintenance (estimated $150-225M of cash charges, primarily decommissioning, contract cancellation, severance and asset disposal costs), leaving both constructed trains idle with production transferred to other facilities.
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Assumptions
- The projects listed here reflect the information captured in this workspace and are not necessarily a complete picture of the company's portfolio. For authoritative figures, refer to the company's official filings.
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How to read this tab
- The tables below list unit codes most often used in the Battery Metals sector for this company. MetalPilot stores contained metal or product in the codes below; grade and tonnage use separate fields. In side-by-side comparison views (stock page Portfolio tab, watchlist By sector), heterogeneous source units are converted to each commodity's preferred display unit (for example Moz Au, kt Cu, MMbbl oil) before summing; the same canonical codes appear in project data.
What the Portfolio tab shows
- The Portfolio tab presents a project-level view of the company's reported assets, built from publicly disclosed information (technical reports, annual filings, MD&A, investor presentations, MRMR / R&R statements, NI 43-101 / NI 51-101 / SEC S-K 1300 / SEC S-K 1200 / JORC / SAMREC / PERC / PRMS / COGEH filings, and similar primary sources).
- Figures are grouped by project type (mining, oil & gas, royalty, stream, processing facility, development, portfolio aggregate) and are shown alongside the headline reserve base, headline production, headline grade / quality, cost benchmarks, estimated lifetime, commercial terms (for royalties / streams), operational capacity (for processing) and a single-figure rating where the underlying data supports one.
- Each data table on the Portfolio tab is followed by ONE Assumptions footnote describing the modelling choices for that table; KPI stat-card assumptions appear in the bottom block instead. All legal and section disclaimers are merged into a single disclaimer list at the bottom of the Portfolio tab.
Concepts in your sector — Battery metals
- LCE vs Li metal vs Li₂O. Hard-rock reserves use % Li₂O; brine reserves use mg/L Li. Both translate to lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) for chemical buyers.
- 1 t Li₂O ≈ 2.473 t LCE; 1 t Li metal ≈ 5.323 t LCE; 1 t LCE ≈ 0.188 t Li metal.
- Spodumene concentrate (5–6% Li₂O) is the usual hard-rock product; brine producers sell lithium carbonate or hydroxide. ~7.5:1 spodumene tonne to LCE tonne at 6% Li₂O.
- Nickel Class I (≥99.8% Ni, batteries) vs Class II (ferronickel/NPI, stainless). Cobalt is almost always a Cu/Ni by-product.
Portfolio tab — table guide
- Portfolio KPIs — company-level headline numbers aggregated from the featured projects (project counts, attributable annual production by commodity, attributable resource base by commodity, last filing date, operator share). USD value lines multiply attributable volumes by the resolved snapshot price.
- Portfolio snapshot — one-screen summary of the portfolio: counts by type and status, country mix, reporting standards used, operator share, primary commodity, attributable annual production summary and attributable resource base summary.
- Mining — one row per mining project, with columns for project name, location, status, primary commodities, production (with rating), reserves & resources (with rating), grade (with rating), costs and estimated lifetime. Multi-commodity projects emit one summary row per commodity.
- Royalty — one row per royalty interest held by the company. Columns cover the underlying project, operator, commodity, commercial terms (rate, type, cap, area-of-interest), attributable production, attributable reserves and estimated lifetime.
- Stream — one row per metal stream held by the company. Each row shows the underlying project, the streamed commodity, the headline stream percentage, the ongoing per-ounce / per-tonne payment, and attributable production / reserves.
- Processing facilities — one row per midstream / processing facility (pipeline, fractionator, LNG train, storage cavern, refinery, smelter, mill, heap-leach pad, CPP, etc.). Columns include nameplate capacity, contracted capacity, feedstock commodities and operational footprint.
- Development — projects in development status or in a pre-production lifecycle phase. The production column is re-labelled 'Targeted production (rating)' to highlight that the figures are plans, not actuals.
- Portfolio Aggregate — a single company-level row used when the company itself publishes a portfolio rollup (e.g. company-wide 2P barrels across all properties).
- Reserves & resources — detail — a leaf-category pivot showing every reserve and resource category disclosed across the projects.
- NPV (grouped) — all NPV rows captured from the filings, grouped by commodity, resource category, development status and pricing case. Each NPV figure is shown with its discount rate, basis (before-tax / after-tax), currency and value scale.
Ownership / Working interest
- Ownership percentage means the company's working-interest share of the asset: its slice of the project before royalties and before government take. It is shown on a 0–100 scale.
- Mines, oil and gas fields, and processing facilities — this is how much of the asset belongs to the company under that working-interest idea. One hundred percent is fully owned; a lower number usually means partners share the rest.
- Royalties and streaming agreements — the percentage is often not the story; what matters economically is usually the royalty or stream rate, shown elsewhere alongside these figures.
- Oil and gas — read this as gross working interest only. Do not treat it as net production or net wells after royalties; when filings distinguish gross from net, that shows up in how the resource numbers themselves are labelled.
- Below 100% — the short summary for each project names other owners and their stakes when the source says who they are.
- NRI vs WI (O&G). Working interest (WI) is the obligation to pay a share of costs; net revenue interest (NRI) is the share of revenue after royalties and overriding-royalty interests. A 100% WI well rarely produces 100% NRI; typical onshore U.S. NRI is 75–87.5% of WI depending on the lease royalty.
- Operator vs non-operator. The operator runs day-to-day operations; non-operating partners pay their WI share of costs but do not run the asset. Some Portfolio rows show operator share where disclosed.
Unit codes, conversion cheat sheets, cost benchmarks (AISC, C1–C3), reporting standards (NI 43-101, JORC, SEC S-K 1300) and resource/reserve category definitions live in the full terminology & units reference.
Each table lists the numeric band for scores 1–5 (production and resource base; grade where applicable for mining commodities) using the same thresholds as project rating stat cards. Only commodities that appear on featured projects for this document are listed.
Lithium
Copper uses kt Cu bands (Mlb Cu when lb-scale copper resources appear on featured projects). Lithium grade uses brine mg/L Li bands (from extraction and/or resource grade units on featured projects).
Assumptions
- Presented values are denominated in currency of the country where the company is headquartered. Values like market capitalization might differ from the values visible in other parts of the page, where the currency is always USD.
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