James Bay mine [SEP] product
James Bay mine
The James Bay mine is one of the largest lithium mines in Canada. The mine is located in eastern Canada in Quebec. The James Bay mine has reserves amounting to 22.2 million tonnes of lithium ore grading 0.58% lithium thus resulting 0.13 million tonnes of lithium.
the smelted material is shipped to Norway for refining into usable product metal product.
Background.
The Raglan exploration and mine is in Northern Quebec. The negotiations and signing of the agreement was done in the context of the 1975 James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement (JBNQA). The JBNQA has an aspect of land claims and requirements of negotiations with aboriginal groups. However, the land on which the Raglan Mine was to be situated was not on any “claimed” land nor directly overlapping an Inuit community; therefore the