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KABIL Secures $24 Million Lithium Exploration Deal in Argentina | Autocar Professional

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The exploration pact grants KABIL exclusive rights to explore and develop lithium resources in five blocks in Argentina. V L Kantha Rao, India’s top bureaucrat in the mining ministry, had previously hinted at the country’s interest in lithium assets, mentioning preliminary discussions with Bolivia in December.

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Berkeley Lab leading investigation to quantify and characterize Salton Sea’s geothermal lithium resources

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Currently, most of the world’s lithium supply is either mined from open pit mines, which are common in China and Australia, or extracted from salar deposits, or salt lake flats, in South America. Berkeley Lab has projects with both under grants from the California Energy Commission.)

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Tesla And Other Tech Giants Scramble For Lithium As Prices Double

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Driven by the rise of battery gigafactories and game-changing Powerwall and energy storage businesses, the world now finds itself at the beginning of a lithium super cycle that is all about securing new supply, much of which is poised to come from lithium superstar Argentina. Remember—this is one man, one company.

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