Iran says it’s discovered what could be the world’s second-largest lithium deposit

Photo caption: A lithium mining machine moves a salt by-product at the mine in the Atacama Desert in Salar de Atacama, Chile on October 25, 2022. Photo credit: Lucas Aguayo Araos | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images. Article by Natasha Turak. CNBC – March 6, 2023.

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• “For the first time in Iran, a lithium reserve has been discovered in Hamedan” in the country’s west, an official at Iran’s Ministry of Industry, Mines and Trade said.
• The ministry believes the deposit holds 8.5 million tons of lithium, which is often called “white gold” for the rapidly growing electric vehicle industry. […]

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