How Australia became the world’s greatest lithium supplier

Re:How Australia became the world’s greatest lithium supplier by Victerius on Friday November 11, 2022 @11:23AM (#33562733)

Afghanistan is landlocked. To its north is Russia. To its east is China. To its south are Pakistan and India. And to its west is Iran.

Fun neighborhood. Nothing could go wrong with the above countries fighting for their share of Afghanistan's mineral resources.

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Re:How Australia became the world’s greatest lithium supplier by newyankee on Friday November 11, 2022 @11:44AM (#33563084)

India does not share land border with Afghanistan , although Afg and Indian people apparently share warm relations (not Taliban)

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Re:How Australia became the world’s greatest lithium supplier by rootusrootus on Friday November 11, 2022 @01:16PM (#33564509)

> India does not share land border with Afghanistan

I'm guessing India would claim that it does. Pakistan would argue otherwise.

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Re:How Australia became the world’s greatest lithium supplier by devoutsalsa on Friday November 11, 2022 @02:10PM (#33565272)

Reading about the line of control that splits Kashmir is pretty interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karachi_Agreement

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Re:How Australia became the world’s greatest lithium supplier by dsfyu404ed on Friday November 11, 2022 @12:39PM (#33563925)

>Afghanistan is landlocked

Which is not that great if you intend to export raw bulk goods (e.g. ore). You really want to have ports for that. The extra few percent efficiency of ship vs rail makes a huge difference because margin is so thin.

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Re:How Australia became the world’s greatest lithium supplier by asdff on Friday November 11, 2022 @01:57PM (#33565084)

One of its neighbors will build out rail lines to their borders so they can take the position of lucrative refiner and exporter of a massive lithium reserve that only their infrastructure has good access to.

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