{"id":569107,"date":"2026-07-26T15:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T15:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/569107\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T15:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T15:33:10","slug":"as-zimbabwes-raw-lithium-ban-pays-off-ambitions-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/569107\/","title":{"rendered":"As Zimbabwe\u2019s raw lithium ban pays off, ambitions grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe\u2019s first plant to process clean-energy metal lithium \u2014 of which it is Africa\u2019s top producer \u2014 is up and running, a milestone in its expanding drive to stop the wholesale export of its raw mineral wealth.<\/p>\n<p>Buoyed by the development, the small southern African country is determined to go much further in its drive for local processing of its resources, even eyeing its own production of rechargeable lithium batteries.<\/p>\n<p>It is part of a push by the country \u2014 and others on the continent \u2014 to add value domestically to raw materials to create jobs and lift export earnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe\u2019s first plant to process clean-energy metal lithium \u2014 of which it is Africa\u2019s top producer \u2014 is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[255,72,113,61,60,10692,7619,40646],"class_list":["post-569107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-africa","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lithium","tag-mining","tag-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}