China has just strengthened its power in the lithium business when discovering a deposit with 490 million tons of this and other minerals.
A Chinathe second country in the world with the largest identified lithium reserves, discovered a new deposit with about 490 million tons of this and others minerals.
According to the Provincial Department of Natural Resources, the deposit was located in the Minas Gerais zone of Jijiaoshan, in the municipality of Linwu, in the central province of Hunan, and contains approximately 1.31 million tons of oxide of lithiumin addition to rubidium, tungsten e tin.
The discovery resulted from years of prospecting and the application of new geological exploration technologies, said the Hunan Mineral Resources Measurement Institute, quoted by the Chinese Official News Agency Xinhua.
According to Xu Yimingteacher at the Institute, the resources found should support the development of the new energy industry in the city of Chenzhou, also located in Hunan.
According to data from the Chinese Ministry of Natural Resources, the China recently surpassed the United States and became the Second country in the world with higher identified reserves of lithium.
Ahead of China only Boliviawith an increase of 16.5% compared to 2024.
The discovery occurs at a time when China intensifies efforts to explore domestic resources, aiming to reinforce energy security and access to strategic raw materials, in a context of growing global mineral competition such as lithium, crucial for the production of batteries used in electric vehicles.
Last week, China and USA left the importance of minerals in the current geopolitical context.
Washington was committed to authorizing sending to China of software of design of chips, ethane and jet engines, provided that Beijing meets the promise of accelerating the approval of exports of these minerals critics.
Commercial understanding provides for the purpose of restrictions on tariffs.
