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Australia exports (perhaps much) less than $1B/year of Lithium, so that's way smaller than the rounding error of this discussion.

• cmurf 8y ago
  The quantity is not a rounding error, whereas the value is low only because the Australian government prices lithium far below its value.
  • sundvor 8y ago
    Sure can't deviate from its modus operandi; it's not Norway, after all.
    • sundvor 8y ago
      And by that I mean that Australia favours enriching corporate coffers over collection revenue from its natural resources so as to benefit the whole nation with a long term view.