Australia tries to break its dependence on China for lithium mining
New York Times: Australian government wants to break the world’s dependence on China.
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New York Times: Australian government wants to break the world’s dependence on China.
Half of the world’s supply of the critical battery ingredient is mined in Australia, which ships virtually all of it to China. The government and business are betting they can change that.
‘There’s no other way we can provide the quantity of copper in the following 10 years to drive
'There’s no way we can supply the amount of copper in the next 10 years to drive the energy transition and carbon zero.'
The transition to clean energy depends on copper, but a vast Mongolian mining project offers a glimpse of the metal’s troubled future.