Rio Tinto Group has held talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo about developing one of the world’s biggest hard rock lithium deposits, in the latest sign of the miner’s enthusiasm for the battery metal.
The conversations in recent weeks with Congolese authorities focused on Rio getting involved in transforming the Roche Dure resource into a lithium mine, according to people familiar with the matter. The discussions were at a preliminary stage and might not result in any agreement, the people said.
