{"id":31825,"date":"2026-04-14T13:32:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=31825"},"modified":"2026-04-14T13:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:32:26","slug":"chinas-yahua-industrial-group-gets-lithium-export-quota-from-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/chinas-yahua-industrial-group-gets-lithium-export-quota-from-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Yahua Industrial Group gets lithium export quota from Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">China&#8217;s Sichuan Yahua Industrial Group said on Tuesday it had secured a six-month \u200bexport quota for lithium concentrates from Zimbabwe, two \u200cmonths after Africa&#8217;s top lithium producer suspended exports of the key battery material.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The quota will be sufficient to ensure normal \u200bproduction at its Kamativi Mine, Yahua Group added \u200bin response to a question on an investor \u2060online Q&amp;A platform affiliated with the Shenzhen Stock \u200bExchange.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Yahua is going through the procedure to resume exports, \u200bit added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The comments came after Zimbabwe granted export quotas to two Chinese mining firms for lithium concentrates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The firms, Chengxin Lithium and Sinomine \u200bResources, run lithium mining facilities in Zimbabwe, state media said \u200bon Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Zimbabwe suspended exports of all raw minerals and lithium concentrates in \u200cFebruary, \u2060citing alleged malpractice and leakage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">It told producers it would introduce lithium concentrate export quotas earlier this month, with conditions that included commitments for more local processing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">In 2025, \u200bZimbabwe exported 1.13 \u200bmillion tons \u2060of lithium, bearing spodumene concentrate to China, making up about 15% of China&#8217;s lithium \u200bconcentrate imports last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Huayou Cobalt said it \u200bhad \u2060not received any notice from the Zimbabwe government, according to Monday&#8217;s state media report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Huayou is also among \u2060Chinese \u200binvestors in Zimbabwe, dominating its lithium \u200bmining industry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21134,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-31825","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"China secures 6 month \u200bexport quota for lithium concentrates from Zimbabwe","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31826,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31825\/revisions\/31826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=31825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}