by John Southam, Loss Prevention Senior Executive, NorthStandard (Greece), and Lee Stenhouse, Managing Director, Roxburgh

Spodumene, a lithium aluminium silicate, is the world's most abundant commercially viable lithium mineral.

The rapid global increase in lithium demand due to the advent of the electric vehicle battery industry has led to the mineral sources of lithium being increasingly developed and exploited, with spodumene being the most important.

This has, in turn, led to an increase in shipments of spodumene (alternative names declared by shippers include lithium mineral concentrate, lithium alumina silicate, spodumene concentrate sc6.0, and alpha spodumene), a cargo which possess shifting and/or liquefaction risks.

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