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    7 months ago

    ‘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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        7 months ago

        Oh shoot, my info is out of date!

        Thank you for the correction =)

        Edit:

        Potential downside: All of the lithium in Argentina goes into battery banks for bitcoin mining operations.

        Their inflation rate is now around 300%, great job President AnCap.

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          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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        Australia has the second-largest lithium reserves in the world with 5.7 million tons.

        That’s probably the more important part.