Huge lithium discovery could end world shortages ...

[guerney]

Huge lithium discovery could end world shortages ... Oh, wait, it's in Iran
Batteries are one thing, no one tell Tehran about Li-6, OK?

"According to the US Geological Survey [PDF], the top five identified lithium reserves are: Bolivia, 21 million tons; Argentina, 20 million tons; Chile, 11 million tons; Australia, 7.9 million tons, and China, 6.8 million tons. "

Huge lithium find may end world shortage – there's a catch

Good thing we've got a great rapport with Tehran, no?

www.theregister.com

 

[flecc]

As I've posted previously, the lithium scarcity is just another scare story, there will be vast amounts discovered in due course. We get this nonsense all the time. I well remember the 1950s and '60s story that peak oil had been reached and we would run out of crude oil by the millennium. In fact we have so much of it now we aren't even bothering to exploit new finds.
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[flecc]

I rather like the inadvertant abbreviation of the thread title on the Forums page