{"id":226456,"date":"2026-03-09T13:09:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-ivory-coast-grants-two-lithium-exploration-permits-amid-metals-race\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T13:09:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:09:17","slug":"cote-divoire-ivory-coast-grants-two-lithium-exploration-permits-amid-metals-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-ivory-coast-grants-two-lithium-exploration-permits-amid-metals-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Ivory Coast Grants Two Lithium Exploration Permits Amid Metals Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire has granted 2 new lithium exploration permits as the country seeks to expand its mining sector and position itself in the global supply chain for battery metals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The permits were approved during a Council of Ministers meeting on March 4. The licenses allow companies to conduct geological and geophysical studies to identify lithium deposits used in electric vehicle batteries and energy storage systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">One permit was awarded to Stargate Atlantis Minerals SARL and covers exploration&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603090019.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire has granted 2 new lithium exploration permits as the country seeks to expand its mining sector and position itself in the global supply chain for battery metals. The permits were approved during a Council of Ministers meeting on March 4. The licenses allow companies to conduct geological and geophysical studies to identify lithium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":226457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,6560,5958,6183,6555,5959,9746,10875,6559,1218,43979,22444,257,13239,5146,254],"class_list":["post-226456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coast","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-exploration","tag-grants","tag-ivory","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-lithium","tag-metals","tag-news","tag-permits","tag-race","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}