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Australia is the largest producer of lithium with Chile second. https://www.volkswagenag.com/en/news/stories/2020/03/lithium-mining-what-you-should-know-about-t

• lysp 4y ago
  Big issue in Australia is we like to dig things up and essentially give them away internationally. Fossil fuel companies have a very big say in government decisions. There is a recent change of government, so they'll have slightly less of a say - but still a large amount. What we really need to do, if we were forward-thinking enough, is value-add our resources. Instead of sending away lithium and buying back batteries, we should develop the capability locally.
• JumpCrisscross 4y ago
  Do Australia or Chile have material processing capacity? There is a world of difference between lithium and the sorts of refined powders battery makers use to produce the finished product. Besides Redwood Materials in the U.S., I think that refining capacity is almost entirely in China.