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GlobalData: Global lithium production to triple over the next four years

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According to the USGS, lithium resources have increased substantially worldwide due to continuing exploration, and total more than 53 million tons. Identified lithium resources in the United States, from continental brines, geothermal brines, hectorite, oilfield brines, and pegmatites, have been revised to 6.8 million tons.

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International Lithium Association (ILiA) established to be the voice of the global lithium industry

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The Association will include Members from the entire supply chain: from resource to the end-users. —Anand Sheth. The element lithium (Li) is the lightest of all the metallic atoms and is the 33 rd most common element on Earth. However, due to lithium’s high reactivity, metallic lithium is not found as such in nature. ppm Li (0.0018%).

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It’s too late to China-proof the lithium supply chain – ET Auto

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Of the country’s two operating mines, one is owned by Beijing-based Sinomine Resource Group Co., Add in Zimbabwe, where Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co. Australia’s Liontown Resources Ltd. Even in Canada, Chinese money has been crucial. while the other was owned by Chinese battery producer Contemporary Amperex Technology Co.

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Business Leaders Call for Linking Water, Energy and Climate in Global Talks

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In the examples cited in the report, biomass for biofuels has the largest and widest ranging footprint: from 24,000 m 3 per 1,000 GJ in the Netherlands to 143,000 m 3 per 1,000 GJ in Zimbabwe. Climate change acts as an amplifier of the already intense competition over water and energy resources. Data: WBCSD (2009). Click to enlarge.

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BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can leverage its abundant cobalt resources and hydroelectric power to become a low-cost and low-emissions producer of lithium-ion battery cathode precursor materials, according to a new study on a unified African supply chain by BloombergNEF (BNEF).

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