Lithium is not only mined in the well-known Atacama Desert, but nowadays comes mainly from Australia. There, the lithium mineral spodumene is mined in the classic way.
Our guest Dipl.-Geol. Schmidt from the German Raw Materials Agency (DERA) suspects that the prices of lithium-ion batteries will increase in the future. This is not only due to growing electric mobility (demand) and the global shortage of supply for lithium itself, but also to practically all battery materials becoming more expensive.
