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This is a list of countries by lithium mine production from 2018 onwards. [1]
The Greenbushes mine is the world's largest hard rock lithium mine in terms of reserves, resources, production, and capacity. [5] The facility's operations are made up of the mine and two nearby processing facilities that convert the raw lithium spodumene concentrate into lithium hydroxide before being sold to global battery manufacturers including LG Chem, CATL and Northvolt.
The Thacker Pass lithium mine is a lithium clay mining development project in Humboldt County, Nevada, which is the largest known lithium deposit in the US and one of the largest in the world. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] There has been significant exploration of Thacker Pass since 2007.
The Greenbushes mine in Western Australia is the largest hard-rock lithium mine in the world Australia has one of the biggest lithium reserves [ 1 ] and is the biggest producer of lithium by weight, [ 2 ] with most of its production coming from mines in Western Australia .
The privately owned company holds the world’s largest-known deposit of lithium at approximately 11 million tonnes. [1] The mine is located in southern Zimbabwe in Masvingo Province. [1] The Bikita mine has reserves amounting to 10.8 million tonnes of lithium ore grading 1.4% lithium thus resulting 0.15 million tonnes of lithium. [1]
The Jadar mining project is a proposed mining site. The deposit is one of the largest lithium deposits in the world and also contains boron. It is planned that both lithium and boron will be recovered from the ore. [1] The deposit contains the mineral jadarite, the only occurrence of this mineral in the world.
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM) is a Chilean chemical company and a supplier of plant nutrients, iodine, lithium and industrial chemicals. It is the world's biggest lithium producer. [2] SQM's natural resources and its main production facilities are located in the Atacama Desert in Tarapacá and Antofagasta regions.
Australia is the biggest producer of lithium by weight and has the world's largest hard-rock lithium mine, the Greenbushes mine in Western Australia. Lithium mined at Greenbushes accounted for more than 20% of global production in 2021. [50]