Canada Just Opened North America's First Battery-Grade Lithium Refinery | OilPrice.com Haley Zaremba Haley Zaremba is a writer and journalist based in Mexico City. She has extensive experience writing and editing environmental features, travel pieces, local news in the… More Info Premium Content By Haley Zaremba - Apr 26, 2026, 12:00 PM CDT Mangrove Lithium's Delta, BC facility is the first commercial electrochemical lithium refinery in North America, with capacity to produce 1,000 tonnes of battery-grade lithium a year. China still controls roughly half of the global lithium market, and the Canadian government is backing Mangrove as part of a broader...