MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - British firms Bacanora Lithium and Sonora Lithium, as well as China's Ganfeng International Trading, registered an arbitration case against the Mexican government over a mining concession, according to a post from the World Bank's dispute settlement center.

The post, from the lender's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), is dated June 21 and lists the case as pending.

The case centers on Mexico's most advanced lithium mining project, located in northern Sonora state, and follows legislation championed by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador that nationalized the country's nascent lithium sector.

To date, there is not any commercial production in Mexico of the ultra-light white metal coveted by rechargeable battery makers.

Last November, China's Ganfeng Lithium Group said Mexico's economy ministry upheld the cancellations of certain mining concessions of its subsidiaries.

The concessions would have allowed the company to develop the Sonora lithium project, but were canceled by mining officials in August, arguing that Ganfeng had failed to comply with minimum investment requirements.

(Reporting by David Alire Garcia; Editing by Kylie Madry)