Facility

Rio Tinto Rincon Battery-Grade Lithium Carbonate Project

Primary-source record for Rio Tinto Rincon Battery-Grade Lithium Carbonate Project. The qualifying line is modeled at the physical grain supported by the cited source, with lithium-brine as input and battery-grade-lithium-carbonate as output. Current state was rechecked for the Phase 2 launch-date sweep on 2026-08-18.

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Location: Salar del Rincon, Salta, Argentina

Lithium chemicals

Rio Tinto Rincon Battery-Grade Lithium Carbonate Project qualifying line

Under construction

Direct lithium extraction and conversion to battery-grade lithium carbonate

Material flow

Lithium-Bearing Brine → Battery-Grade Lithium Carbonate

Capacity

53,000 metric-tonne-per-year · Product mass · Nameplate · as of Jun 3, 2025

Qualification

Commercial production · The cited primary source identifies the line output as battery grade or battery quality. · Jun 3, 2025

Sources

Argentina Ministry of Economy · published Jun 3, 2025 · retrieved Aug 18, 2026 · archive unavailable: Wayback /web/2026/ redirect probe returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-19; no snapshot was verified.