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‘Other Country’ being mainly China, which happens to sit on most of the lithium deposits on Earth if I am not mistaken.

Also to a lesser extent, Afghanistan. I remember a few years back a report of huge lithium deposits being found there but uh… yeah good luck with running that operation.

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sparky@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s actually Argentina and Chile, which tips that calculus in our favour given they’re friendly western developed nations.

worldpopulationreview.com/…/lithium-reserves-by-c…

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- sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Oh shoot, my info is out of date!
  
  Thank you for the correction =)
  
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  - basxto@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Maybe you confused it with rare earths? China dominated that market.
    
    But reserves don’t matter that much for market domination. Actual production and how much you control production of other countries does.
    
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    sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Could be, I tend to post past midnight before I fall asleep.
    
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- basxto@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Australia has the second-largest lithium reserves in the world with 5.7 million tons.
  
  That’s probably the more important part.
  
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