The federal government invades that state for "peace and freedom"
this post was submitted on 11 May 2026
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Oil-backed GOP will make sure it doesn't get developed until next century. "Buy oil instead you losers!"
What happened to the last 2.5t lithium deposit? Also these deposits are just the tech to extract ever smaller amounts of valuable material from waste material right? Like oh this land has 0.0001% lithum percent but now that is profitable because advances in valuables extraction, if we crator this region.
China isn't special to have high concentration deposits they are special because no one is going to stop them from digging up hundreds of square/km of Earth in Africa.
China's special for controlling a very high proportion of the processing infrastructure that converts the lithium ore to batteries, rather than the extraction. There are a bunch of places that have substantial known lithium reserves.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/lithium-reserves-by-country
| Country | Lithium Reserves 2024 (MT) |
|---|---|
| Chile | 9.3M |
| Australia | 7M |
| Argentina | 4M |
| China | 3M |
| United States | 1.8M |
| Canada | 1.2M |
| Zimbabwe | 480K |
| Brazil | 390K |
| Portugal | 60K |
| Namibia | 14K |
| Total | 27.2M |
Australia does the most extraction:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/lithium-production-by-country
I bet it's like the one discovered in Portugal which is of a mineral form of it for which there is no technology to industrially extract the lithium.
In other words, about as feasible as "we can extract all the we want from sea water".
Civil war coming!