Portugal to promote lithium potential

Portugal's secretary of state for energy, Jorge Seguro Sanches wants to re-energise the country's push to be a central part of Europe's future EV battery and auto-manufacturing supply chain and believes an upcoming public tender for 3,600 square kilometres of ground considered prospective for pegmatite and lepidolite lithium can help.

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Drilling at the disputed Sepeda lithium property in northern Portugal

The senior government official told Mining Journal he expected data packages for the tenement blocks in eight separate regions - the biggest in the country's major historic lithium field, Guarda-Mangualde - would be ready for public release in June.