{"id":346636,"date":"2026-02-19T11:41:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/albemarle-halts-lithium-processing-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T11:41:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:41:49","slug":"albemarle-halts-lithium-processing-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/albemarle-halts-lithium-processing-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Albemarle halts lithium processing in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"1400\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/02\/albemarle-halts-lithium-processing-in-australia.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Albermarle lithiumhydroxid kemerton australien australia min\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" \/><br \/>U.S. chemical company Albemarle has immediately shut down the last remaining active production line, Train 1, at its lithium hydroxide plant in Kemerton, Western Australia. Lithium extraction from hard rock has become unprofitable. <a href=https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2026\/02\/19\/albemarle-halts-lithium-processing-in-australia\/ target='_blank'>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>width=&#8221;1400&#8243; height=&#8221;700&#8243; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/02\/albemarle-halts-lithium-processing-in-australia.jpg&#8221; class=&#8221;attachment-large size-large&#8221; alt=&#8221;Albermarle lithiumhydroxid kemerton australien australia min&#8221; decoding=&#8221;async&#8221; fetchpriority=&#8221;high&#8221; loading=&#8221;eager&#8221; \/&gt;U.S. chemical company Albemarle has immediately shut down the last remaining active production line, Train 1, at its lithium hydroxide plant in Kemerton, Western Australia. Lithium extraction from hard rock has become unprofitable&#8230;. <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/albemarle-halts-lithium-processing-in-australia\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":346637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346636","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}