Lithium

They make us learn that in high school.

Uh, uh, Lithium was a Nirvana song, I remember that.

My understanding is, is that there's loads of it in North Carolina on water, and that's why historically people have come here to kind of, um, uh, drink the water and heal.

And it's been, you know, we've had, we've had a lot of...

... jazzing us up.

Maybe it's the lithium.

The, the-- Two possible titles for this episode are Maybe It's the Lithium and-

Yeah

And I have very personal knowledge of that.

I read about it in my book, introducing Gangfen to lithium Americans at the time, now lithium Argentina.

You also see Zijin there, Tibet Summit.

But I'll make a final point here, is that Argentina's lithium industry began with U.S. investment, which was FMC Lithium.

And again, yeah, I'm more of a lithium bull than all these naysayers in China who keep trying to talk down the price.

If you're going to be in Hohui for Panorama Minero, please say hello.

I will be doing a book signing that Panorama Minero has been kind enough to arrange.

And there's a fairly good inventory of books that were shipped down to the event.

hi mining community welcome back to another episode of the dig deep the mining podcast the show that brings you latest insights thought leadership and stories from across the global mining industry in today's episode we have jamie ounce who's the ceo of cornish lithium a pioneer mineral extraction company focused on extracting lithium from hard rock and geothermal waters Cornwall in the UK the company is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year and they appeared on this podcast in my very first episodes which was back in 2018 when the business was very much an exploration story so a lot has happened since then so obviously 10 years on it's developing into two different rooms to extract lithium from Cornwall You're looking at hard rock and geothermal waters.

So as it looks to establish a domestic source of this increasingly important critical mineral for the UK.

Jamie joins us to discuss how far the company's actually come so far in those 10 years.

the technology behind its extraction routes, finding the skills and people needed to build a new UK lithium industry and what differentiates its approach from other lithium projects.

We're also going to look at the domestic lithium production and why this matters to the UK and what support is needed from the government and also where Jamie sees Cornish lithium in the wider UK mine industry for or and over the next sort of five to ten years and obviously a lot more to discuss but they're some of the main points and so Jamie great to have on the podcast how are you

good afternoon Rob I'm very well thank you good to speak to you again

Yeah, and yourself.

But what a journey it's been.

It could be like stuff that's been around for a decade, combining solar and lithium iron phosphate batteries.

And it's not that hard to do, I guess would be the other message.

Lithium, turns out, is actually very abundant on this planet.

There are massive reserves of lithium in Maine, reserves at the California-Nevada border.

I've heard that there are actually some in some of the mountains in Vermont too.

That's

what I was really trying to ask, but didn't say it the right way.

Originally going back 20 years when those first emerged, Lithium, nobody knew what to do with it.

We offer that in a containerized solution, Endurium, but also we're able to talk about the flex-based solution at the bottom.

Now what you'll note is I haven't talked about LDS and I haven't talked about non-lithium and that's deliberate because actually that flexibility means we can offer different types of duration storage, not just LDS that forms part of it and of course not long duration, but actually that's a use case that works very well for us.

And then in terms of non-Lithium, I've never liked saying we were a non-Lithium business.

You don't go and buy a, or you don't try and sell someone an SUV by telling them you're not a performance sports car.

Tell them exactly what you are.

Hi, it's Joe Lowry.

Welcome to another episode of the Global Lithium Podcast.

Today is episode 244.

There is no guest.

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Last week, Bloomberg wrote an article with the headline, Lithium's Inventory Upheaval Confounds Industry Hits Prices.

The key takeaways were that a surprise surge in lithium stockpile data confounded traders and weighed on prices after a change in methodology.