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Mining company plans lithium processing plant for Thunder Bay

Jun 25, 2023 05:13AM ● By Content Editor
Photo: An employee works with sacks of lithium carbonate at a Lithium production facility in Silver Peak, Nevada. A lithium processing facility will be built in Thunder Bay, Ont. (Carlos Barria/Reuters )

From the CBC News Staff - CBC News - June 23, 2023

A Toronto-based mining company plans to bring a lithium-hydroxide processing plant to Thunder Bay, Ont.

Avalon Advanced Materials has purchased an industrial property on Strathcona Avenue, the site of a former pulp and paper mill, to house the plant, which would process lithium for use in electric vehicle batteries.


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