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    La Germania scopre un tesoro sotto un vecchio giacimento di gas: 43 milioni di tonnellate di litio sono state trovate sotto la regione dell’Altmark, avvicinando l’Europa alla grande rivoluzione delle batterie

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    3. DM_Me_Your_aaBoobs on

      Lithium is in no way a rare material, but just until maybe 10 years ago it was worthless so nobody searched for it. We will find lithium in many countries now, that geologists start looking for it.

    4. FakingMyOpinion on

      the luxury of post-imperialism Europe to have extracted and imported resources from afar, to only now feel the necessity to dig in the own yard. am not surprised they are finding shiny stuff all over the continent these past few years.

    5. Madman_Sean on

      Lithium ore isn’t that rare nor valuable

      The real business is refining

    6. yankdevil on

      Also, please remember that after a while most batteries will be made from recycled older batteries. Better open mines fast and get product out quick because by 2050 new lithium won’t be worth a huge amount.

    7. AtlanticRelation on

      Meanwhile major lithium mining projects in Czechia and Portugal have been stuck in bureaucratic and regulatory limbo for the last decade.

      If we really want to compete internationally and stay relevant, we’ll have to simplify and deregulate.

      To insignificantcy we go, I guess.

    8. Machiavelcro_ on

      I understand they aren’t exactly equivalent, but with sodium ion batteries taking off, is it worth the time cycle and investment in mining lithium?

    9. monsterinadrawer on

      Bringing Europe closer to the great battery revolution?

      Not at all.

      Extraction and refining are extremely dirty processes. There need to be strong measures put in place to protect Europe’s already severely damaged biosphere. That is a bureaucratic nightmare and a money drain. Any mining projects will get permanently stuck in limbo.

      Nothing ever happens.

    10. Jovan_Knight005 on

      Germany might as well start producing lithium ion batteries while they can before switching to production of sodium ion batteries, as one commenter on the thread mentioned. 

    11. Salmonman4 on

      I hear lithium was also found in Norway. They keep having all the luck

    12. kamill85 on

      New solid state batteries don’t need Lithium at all, are cheaper to produce and more energy dense. Lithium is irrelevant now.

    13. Any-Original-6113 on

      Every year another new deposit is discovered in Europe, but China’s monopoly still holds

    14. WorthTangerine2722 on

      Am I being stupid in thinking this is enough for about 4.3 million EV batteries (ish)?

      Doesn’t sound like enough to spark a revolution but I suppose it does make domestic production a lot more viable

    15. FelizIntrovertido on

      There’s a huge deposit in the border of Spain and Portugal. Nothing has been done about it yet

    16. ashisxx on

      That’s a huge find could be a game changer for Europe’s battery supply and energy independence

    17. Freedom_for_Fiume on

      The problem with finding something in Europe is not that it isn’t there (excluding hydrocarbons) it’s the fact that it is almost impossible to mine it with regulations

    18. Kevin_Jim on

      You can get lithium very easily and cheaply. Refining it, like most industrial elements, is a bitch and a half, though.

      Which is why China has put a death grip on rare earth mental refinement. If Germany can’t refine it locally or in Europe, it might as well not extract it.

    19. ABoutDeSouffle on

      Just to add: this is not a new discovery, it’s a couple of years old. Neptune energy has the rights and is trialing extraction right now.

    20. KofFinland on

      There is lots of lithium in Europe. Like in Finland, 1960s they found a large source (4.5 million tons). In 1990s they started a project to mine it and later to make it into LiOH. It is still not ready because of bureaucratic nightmare of starting a mine and starting a chemical factory in Finland. Mining started january 2026.

      [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keliber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keliber)

      I would guess also in Germany the trick is not to find lithium, but get all the permits to actually mine and refine it. Does it take around 30 years in Germany too?

    22. Ashamed_Molasses_452 on

      No-one tell Trump! Germany will be next on the “invasion” list.

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