By Peter Tremayne Cornish Lithium has raised a staggering £5.2 million in a three-day crowdfunding campaign. The cash will help accelerate the company’s prospecting programme as it searches for the…
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If there is a lesson from the past 50 years or so it is that “mining” investors has been far more successful than mining minerals in Cornwall. My hand stayed in my pocket.
Oh dear, Lithium is not a “metal dug out of the ground”
It is underground as lithium compounds dissolved in water, and pumped out for later processing.
Much obliged, and I take your point about the method of extraction. But back in the days when the Earth was still cooling, and I was doing chemistry O-level, I’m pretty sure that Lithium’s place in the periodic table was as a metal.