Process facility
Mibra mine, Minas Gerais
Also known as Mibra, Mibra mine
The mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil that the operator's own value chain places at the start of the route to its German lithium hydroxide refinery. The operator names it as a spodumene and tantalum producer. No document held here reports material from it arriving anywhere in Europe.
Classification
- facility role
- MINE_SITE
- country
- Brazil
- status
- UNKNOWN
How this record is known
- 1
- Settled consensus
- Cited as the accepted position of the discipline.
1 of 1 claims on this page cite at least one registered source. Counts describe how each statement is known, not how likely it is to be true.
What Lithoen records
Each claim states how it is known and cites its evidence.
EstablishedInstallation: Mibra mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Function as stated: spodumene production, alongside long-standing tantalum concentrate production. Named by: the operator, in a first-party presentation. Role in the European corridor: PLANNED ONLY. Material reported as having left it for Europe: NONE.
Reported for this deposit
The operator's 2023 capital-markets presentation names THE MIBRA MINE, BRAZIL and places MIBRA MINE (SPODUMENE) at the head of the supply-chain diagram for its German refinery, marked tolling until 2026 and start-up 2026. The presentation is a design and sourcing statement; it reports no material actually delivered from this mine to any installation.
- assertion basis: SOURCE_REPORTED
Evidence support: Supported by the cited evidence · one source
Evidence: AMG Critical Materials N.V. 2023 · Peer-reviewed
Record last updated 2026-09-17. Corrections follow the published corrections policy; superseded claims are retained, never silently edited.