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Chemical plant · China

Qinghai & Sichuan Lithium Chemical Cluster

The majority of world lithium carbonate and hydroxide conversion capacity.

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What happens here

Australia mines the most lithium; China converts the most. Spodumene concentrate is shipped thousands of kilometres to be turned into battery-grade chemicals.

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Lithium

Comes out

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Journeys that pass through this plant

Chilean brine to a battery in a car The ore is water. The first year and a half of processing is done by the sun, for free.

Chains that pass through here

Lithium to Electric Vehicle

From a salt flat or a granite pegmatite to the pack under a car floor.

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Qinghai & Sichuan Lithium Chemical Cluster

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In and out

Journeys that pass through this plant

Chains that pass through here

Lithium to Electric Vehicle

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