43 Millionen Tonnen: Eine der weltweit größten Lithiumablagerungen in Deutschland. Die Entdeckung hat das Potenzial, die Rolle Europas in der globalen EV- und Batterie -Lieferkette zu verändern

Cool cool,but are they willing to mine and process it..

Lithium mining is pretty toxic and environmentaly damaging, unless there have been some major improvements i haven’t heard of

Cool, but can we at least then move to some of the lithium versions of batteries that are less explosive?

To those wondering about the insanely high number: „*deposits“* are geological estimates; „*reserves*“ require proof of economic extractability under current or foreseeable conditions.

They did find massive deposits in Germany, but it’s lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) in deep geothermal brines, which are more dilute and much harder to extract than the continental brine deposits in places like Chile.

LCE can be mined with minimal ecological impact, but startup costs are high and political pushback is strong. I don’t see anyone tapping this deposit anytime soon.

that’s very good news
i wish them to find oil or gas, that would be ideal

There are huge rare earth deposits in Europe and in North America, this is nothing new.

The problem is that extracting them is incredibly destructive to the environment, and there’s simply no ways around that which are currently practical.

Not unless you’re willing to give up all environmental protection.

It is also very, very expensive and time consuming even if you don’t care much about the environment.

Just look at these rare earth deposits in Ukraine that Trump made into such a big deal.

Between 1992 (Ukraine independence) and 2014 (start of Russia-backed separatist movement) these deposits were wide open to exploitation. Yet, there was no interest in them. Because even in a country like Ukraine, which had nowhere near the environmental standards used in the rest of Europe, it would be prohibitively expensive to mine these deposits without getting in trouble with authorities for poisoning everything around your operation.

One of the reasons China is leading the world in access to rare earth metals is that they can mine them in China itself, and they secured access to most mining sites in Africa, where they can get away with pretty much anything.

Will they mine it or will everything be perpetually frozen in limbo due to lawsuits from the residents of the region?