In Chile in 2009, IM’s inaugural Lithium Supply & Markets (LSM09) set out explore whether or not there is enough lithium in the world to supply the pending boom from the electric and hybrid car battery markets. With the unprecedented rate of development from the upstream exploration and mining sector and lithium’s end user markets, Lithium Supply & Markets 2010 (LSM10) conference aims to build on the platform created by LSM09. 

Topics to be discussed:

• Lithium, the wider perspective
• Lithium supply - established producers on future prospects
• Emerging US lithium production
• Focus on the electric car market
• Independent analysis of the market
• Global supply developments
• The future of the lithium market
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Interest and demand in lithium minerals has rocketed, driven by the increased importance and production of lithium-ion batteries as the next generation power source. In addition to the booming battery market, lithium's traditional staple markets including ceramics, glass, aluminium, pharmaceuticals, and polymers remain solid.

LSM09, a two day event in Chile, the heart of global lithium production, will put the supply of lithium carbonate, lithium chloride, and lithium hydroxide under the spot light.

**Over 150 delegates attending, view the attendee list below *

• Keith Evans, Independent Consultant, USA
• Patricio de Solminihac, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, SQM SA, Chile
• Dr Steffen Haber, President Lithium, Chemetall GmbH, Germany
• Jon Evans, Division Manager, FMC Lithium Corporation, USA
• David Miller, General Manager Strategic Development, Talison Minerals Pty Ltd, Australia
• Robert Baylis, Senior Research Associate, Roskill Information Services Ltd, UK
• Wang Ping, Manager, Chengdu Tianqi Industry Group Co. Ltd, China
• Edward Anderson, President, TRU Group Inc., USA
• Prof Dr Marrtin Winter, Institute for Physical chemistry, University of Muenster, Germany
• Don Hains, Hains Engineering Co Ltd/Hains Technology Associates, Canada
• Ted Miller, Senior Manager, Energy Storage Strategy and Research, Ford Motor Company, USA
• Luis Alberto Echazu, Minister of Mining and Metallurgy, Bolivia
• Guillermo Roelants du Vivier and Saul Villegas, Director, Direcci?n de Evaporíticos de Bolivia, COMIBOL, Bolivia
• Ilias Belharouak, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA 
• Jay Chmelauskas, President, Western Lithium Corporation, USA
• Dr Carlos Sorentino, Director of Technical Services, Rincon Lithium Ltd, Chile
• Judy Baker, President, Black Pearl Minerals Consolidated Inc., USA
• Juan Carlos Zuleta, Lithium Economics Analyst, Bolivia

• Lithium resources – are they adequate?
• SQM lithium resources and view of the lithium industry
• Powerful lithium compounds for recent and future markets
• FMC: The global lithium company
• Talison and the role of minerals in the lithium industry
• From Zhejiang to Zabuye: China’s mountainous path to a self-sufficient, integrated, lithium industry
• Tianqi’s lithium chemicals activities and its markets in China
• Lithium in interesting times – here to stay?
• Sustainable lithium supplies through 2020 in the face of sustainable market growth
• Is the lithium ion battery mature enough for electric vehicles?
• An analysis from the materials science point of view