{"id":151880,"date":"2026-05-24T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T07:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151880"},"modified":"2026-05-24T07:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T07:00:07","slug":"will-zimbabwes-lithium-strategy-help-it-break-into-the-value-adding-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151880","title":{"rendered":"Will Zimbabwe\u2019s lithium strategy help it break into the value-adding game?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostZimbabwe is betting that its move into lithium processing will finally break the cycle of digging and shipping ore that has defined its mining sector for decades.<br \/>\nThis follows the export of the continent\u2019s first consignment of lithium sulphate by Prospect Lithium Zimbabwe, a subsidiary of China\u2019s Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt, from its US$400 million Arcadia mine near Harare last month.<br \/>\nThe milestone came after Harare unexpectedly brought forward its ban on raw mineral exports to February this year to&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3354484\/will-zimbabwes-lithium-strategy-help-it-break-value-adding-game?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostZimbabwe is betting that its move into lithium processing will finally break the cycle of digging and shipping ore that has defined its mining&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151880"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}