What happened to the last 2.5t lithium deposit? Also these deposits are just the tech to extract ever smaller amounts of valuable material from waste material right? Like oh this land has 0.0001% lithum percent but now that is profitable because advances in valuables extraction, if we crator this region.
China isn’t special to have high concentration deposits they are special because no one is going to stop them from digging up hundreds of square/km of Earth in Africa.
China’s special for controlling a very high proportion of the processing infrastructure that converts the lithium ore to batteries, rather than the extraction. There are a bunch of places that have substantial known lithium reserves.
What happened to the last 2.5t lithium deposit? Also these deposits are just the tech to extract ever smaller amounts of valuable material from waste material right? Like oh this land has 0.0001% lithum percent but now that is profitable because advances in valuables extraction, if we crator this region.
China isn’t special to have high concentration deposits they are special because no one is going to stop them from digging up hundreds of square/km of Earth in Africa.
China’s special for controlling a very high proportion of the processing infrastructure that converts the lithium ore to batteries, rather than the extraction. There are a bunch of places that have substantial known lithium reserves.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/lithium-reserves-by-country
Australia does the most extraction:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/lithium-production-by-country