Comments by "George Reynolds" (@karhukivi) on "Inside a British lithium mine: A Cornish white gold rush?" video.

  1. Like ambulance and train drivers?
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  2. Depends on whether the British want to invest in their own country or let outsiders who see the value get in first.
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  3.  @RichardBacon-h5x  As an exploration geophysicist, I agree with a large part of what you wrote, but lithium deposits are NOT widely found all over the world. Lithium minerals while sometimes found in pegmatites, are not common. In fact mineral exploration companies are busy looking for them all over Europe as part of the "Greenpeg" initiative. Lithium mica is lepidolite, not muscovite. Granite is certainly not considered "slag" and no geologist would ever use that term. Granite is the melt product of Crustal rocks and what floats on top of a melt is called "slag", as in a furnace. The pegmatites might just qualify for that term, so your report is somewhat inaccurate, a problem we tend to have with scientific journalists.
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  4. Everywhere in trace amounts that cost thousands of times more money that the amount is worth. You need an economic deposit concentrated by geological processes.
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  5. Your facts are not right - no "vast" reserves, and not in the USA either! Bolivia controls 50% of the lithium supply. China has reserves too, but processes lithium. Lithium in brine deposits is a lot cheaper to extract than hard-rock lithium deposits in Australia and some other places.
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  6. Not much market for porcelain these days....
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  7.  @spencersanderson1894  Why don't you invest in the project and get some of those profits? It could go wrong and you would lose everything, but that is the risk all investors take. The profits are the reward for the risk.
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  8. No, there isn't. Same goes for all metals, there are mines in many places and they have to be able to mine those minerals and compete with the other producers.
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  9. It can't be. Metals don't grow on trees in organic farms, they require lots of energy to mine, extract and process the metals for our electricity, industry, food production, tractors, trains, TV sets, computers, hospitals, bicycles .....
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  10. Not the lithium minerals. All metals have poisonous compounds. There are poisons everywhere, bleach, petrol, gas, medicines, most plants, some animals too. Even electricity will kill you, and you can drown in water. Ricin is the most toxic poison and it is natural!
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  11. The cobalt mines in Congo are run by Chinese companies very efficiently. However in the vicinity, there are artisanal miners panning waste heaps and using their children to pick out cobalt minerals and that is the problem.
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