CATL’s Jiangxi Jianxiawo lithium mine: the mining project’s EIA public notice
has closed and the file will move to the approval submission stage. Industry and
EIA sources say only the mining EIA is being advanced; the supporting
concentrator and tailings storage require separate EIA amendment because of the
mineral-type change, and there are no public filings yet—those amendments remain
a material hurdle to full resumption. The Ministry of Ecology and Environment’s
EIA credit platform shows the project name changed from “ceramic clay (including
lithium) mine” to “lithium mine” and the project category shifted from 08--012
(chemical mineral/non-metallic mining) to 07--010 (common
non-ferrous/precious/rare and rare-earth metals mining). A legal source said the
change from non-metallic to rare-metal mining alters the EIA classification and
could imply different environmental risk profiles (pollutant types, ecological
impact pathways) versus the original EIA. Separately, the project’s tailings
storage safety production permit may need extension: Credit China records show
the tailings permit was approved on 1 Apr 2025, valid until 14 Jan 2027.
