• LeFantome
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    7 小时前

    This is just an ad for a satellite exploration company. It is not even that big a deal.

    From the article, “That potential would place Cisco among the largest hard-rock lithium deposits now being tracked in the James Bay region.”

    So, not even the biggest in the area.

    Also, Sodium Ion is about to make Lithium much less of a big deal.

    Still great economically but hardly as world changing as the headline makes out.

    • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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      3 小时前

      Sodium Ion is about to make Lithium much less of a big deal.

      Sodium Ion is great diversity source for batteries, but they are inferior in many respects.

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      6 小时前

      This is the part that I find interesting:

      If Cisco ultimately proves its larger target, the project could anchor a domestic lithium supply chain linking Quebec mines and battery factories.

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        5 小时前

        The federal and Ontario governments have said repeatedly that they want to build a lithium battery industry. I worry we are arriving too late now that Sodium Ion is upon us but I am probably being too pessimistic.

        None of that depends on this deposit specifically though. Canada already has lots of Lithium reserves. Much of it is in the same district as this. Of course this could end up being the biggest and truly be “the anchor” I suppose.