{"id":312569,"date":"2025-01-10T23:09:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T23:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/rio-tinto-to-invest-2-5-billion-to-expand-rincon-lithium-project-in-argentina\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T23:09:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T23:09:46","slug":"rio-tinto-to-invest-2-5-billion-to-expand-rincon-lithium-project-in-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/rio-tinto-to-invest-2-5-billion-to-expand-rincon-lithium-project-in-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio Tinto to invest $2.5 billion to expand Rincon lithium project in Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/01\/rio-tinto-to-invest-2-5-billion-to-expand-rincon-lithium-project-in-argentina.jpg' alt='' ><br \/>Global mining group Rio Tinto has approved an investment of $2.5 billion to expand its first commercial-scale lithium operation, the Rincon project in Argentina.\u00a0 Plans call for an increase in annual production capacity of battery-grade lithium carbonate from the current starter plant capacity of 3,000 tonnes (3,307 US tons) to a total of 60,000 tonnes&#8230;   <a href=https:\/\/chargedevs.com\/newswire\/rio-tinto-to-invest-2-5-billion-to-expand-rincon-lithium-project-in-argentina\/ target=bwindow>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/01\/rio-tinto-to-invest-2-5-billion-to-expand-rincon-lithium-project-in-argentina.jpg' alt=''><br \/>Global mining group Rio Tinto has approved an investment of $2.5 billion to expand its first commercial-scale lithium operation, the Rincon project in Argentina.\u00a0 Plans call for an increase in annual production capacity of battery-grade lithium carbonate from the current starter plant capacity of 3,000 tonnes (3,307 US tons) to a total of 60,000 tonnes&#8230;  <\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/rio-tinto-to-invest-2-5-billion-to-expand-rincon-lithium-project-in-argentina\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":312570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charged-evs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}