• Flying SquidM
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    881 year ago

    China won’t be pleased about that. They were predicted to control a third of the world’s lithium within the next few years.

    • @[email protected]
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      201 year ago

      I was just doing my Dr Evil thing thinking about how mad China is going to be about this.

    • @[email protected]
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      101 year ago

      They won’t be able to actually start mining for 3-4 years, so they probably still will for a short period.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      Wdym? the company who owns the mine is owned by a chinese company lol. Thacker Pass Lithium Mine - Wikipedia Lithium Nevada, LLC - a wholly owned subsidiary of Lithium Americas Corp, whose largest shareholder is the world’s largest lithium mining company, Chinese Ganfeng Lithium.

      • Skua
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        311 year ago

        Chinese Ganfeng holds less than 10% of it and it looks like every other big shareholder is North American or European