{"podcast":{"title":"The Global Lithium Podcast","slug":"the-global-lithium-podcast-1191702","podcast_index_feed_id":1191702,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/e113880/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://globallithium.net","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/2260096/2260096-1578274929258-d3137eb6cd5a7.jpg","author":"Joe Lowry","episode_count":187,"summary":"Joe Lowry (@globallithium on X aka Twitter & IG) and known as \"Mr Lithium\" is a 30 plus year industry veteran and founder of the advisory firm Global Lithium LLC. Joe hosts the original lithium podcast featuring high level guests from the lithium chemicals industry, battery, cathode, and related areas. The Global Lithium Podcast remains the 'go to' offering in this space and has been downloaded in 181 countries.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-28T00:17:37.762379+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-global-lithium-podcast-1191702"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 219: Ron Mitchell","slug":"episode-219-ron-mitchell","published_at":"2025-09-18T13:10:51+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-global-lithium-podcast-1191702/episode-219-ron-mitchell","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-global-lithium-podcast-1191702","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/globallithium/episodes/Episode-219-Ron-Mitchell-e38d34a","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/e113880/podcast/play/108481098/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-8-18%2Fb0c60c2d-3803-3a08-d245-5c282643640a.mp3","summary":"Ron Mitchell has one of the lithium industry's most impressive resumes having worked for Talison, Tianqi, and a resource development project. He also chaired the LME lithium and cobalt committee for several years. Topics: The challenge of developing resources De-risking projects Price Africa - reality vs hype Lepidolite - mountains of residue The beauty of vertical integration The hard rock cost curve Incentive prices Hard rock conversion beyond China Peak spodumene in Australia Risk management tools Issues with spot price What's next? Rapid fire","meta_description":"Ron Mitchell has one of the lithium industry's most impressive resumes having worked for Talison, Tianqi, and a resource development project. He also chai…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3567,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-global-lithium-podcast-1191702/episodes/episode-219-ron-mitchell/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-global-lithium-podcast-1191702/episode-219-ron-mitchell.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}