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Carolina Lithium

Hardrock In development 🇺🇸 US-investable ELVR

Gaston County, North Carolina, USA

Overview

ChemistryHardrock
StageIn development
Annual capacity30 kt/y LiOH nameplate (developer, BFS)
Resource44.2 Mt @ 1.08% Li2O
Mine life30 years · ≈ 2021–2051
Development stageBFS (Bankable Feasibility Study, Dec 2021)

Mine-life end year is an estimate (from 2021 reserve statement); timing can shift with reserves, expansions or restarts.

Operators

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TickerOperatorStakeStatus
ELVR Piedmont Lithium Carolinas Inc. (Elevra subsidiary) 100% developer

Location

Approximate location.

Customers & offtake agreements

No mine-specific offtake is documented in the vault for this mine. The operator(s) below have company-level agreements.

Company-level agreements (operator-wide, not mine-specific)

OperatorCustomerProductVolumeTermStatusCitation
ELVR Mangrove Lithium from 2026-03-01 MoU signed Q3 FY26 linked source link
ELVR LG Chem from 2023-02-16 active linked source link
ELVR Tesla from 2023-01-03 original term expired end-2025; renewal status n.d. linked source link
ELVR Waratah Capital Advisors Ltd (investment vehicle) — Moblan offtake TERMINATED from 2021-10-01 terminated 12 May 2026 — repurchased by Elevra linked source link
ELVR Piedmont Lithium (legacy NAL offtake) from 2021-08-01 internal post-merger (no longer external) linked source link

Agreements disclosed in filings; each row shows its citation strength — cached filing (primary doc cached in the vault), linked source (public URL, may rot), vault note (curated note, secondary provenance), unsourced (no source on record). Volumes are as disclosed; pricing terms are confidential and not shown.

The numbers behind Carolina Lithium

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Reserves & grade — Resource & reserve tonnage, grade, category, as-of date.$3
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