{"id":227277,"date":"2023-02-20T19:25:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T13:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=227277"},"modified":"2023-02-20T19:25:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T13:55:02","slug":"judgement-reserved-too-early-to-celebrate-the-lithium-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/judgement-reserved-too-early-to-celebrate-the-lithium-find\/","title":{"rendered":"Judgement reserved – Too early to celebrate the lithium find"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cJudgement reserved – Too early to celebrate the lithium find” <\/strong>published in Business Standard <\/b>on\u00a020th February 2023<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS 1 \u2013 Distribution of key natural resources across the world (including South Asia and the Indian sub-continent).<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About Lithium reserves.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: Recently, a vast deposit of lithium ores has been found in Jammu\u00b4s Reasi district.<\/p>\n

What is Lithium?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Read here:\u00a0<\/strong>Facts about Lithium<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

About the Lithium findings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Read more: Geological Survey of India Finds Lithium and Gold Deposits<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What are the applications of Lithium?<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Read here:\u00a0<\/strong>Uses of Lithium<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What are the issues with extracting the identified Lithium resources?<\/h2>\n

If the estimates that the Reasi deposits of 5.9 million tonnes of lithium are close to being accurate, then India possesses the largest reserves after Bolivia. However, a)<\/strong> the accurate estimates of proven quantity<\/strong> could eventually be significantly lower than the current inferred amount<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

b)<\/strong> The extraction process<\/strong> could take a decade or more and require substantial investment<\/strong>. For instance, in 2005, Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) announced that it had discovered $100 billion worth of natural gas in the offshore Krishna Godavari Basin. It was hailed as a historic moment and large investments poured in over the next 17 years. But GPSC still did not achieve commercial production.<\/p>\n

c)<\/strong> India should not only have to extract and refine<\/strong> lithium but also set up a value chain<\/strong> for battery production. This process of extraction, refining, and battery production will take a fair amount of investment and time.<\/p>\n

d)<\/strong> The project will create a serious environmental impact and possibly require the shifting of local populations <\/strong>since the area is geologically \u201cyoung\u201d and seismically unstable.<\/p>\n

e)<\/strong> Reasi is close to the Line of Control<\/strong>, which means there could be geopolitical complications<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

What should be done?<\/h2>\n

The government will have to work out a comprehensive policy<\/strong> if the reserves are proven.<\/p>\n

Work on sodium-ion batteries<\/strong>: India has always been aware that it is lacking in lithium reserves. Hence, India has invested in researching alternative storage technologies involving sodium-ion batteries.\u00a0Sodium is far more abundantly available than lithium it can be extracted from seawater. There has been promising research into sodium-ion battery technologies in the laboratories of the IITs. Indian should continue and scale up it to be commercially available.<\/p>\n

The lithium discovery is worth investigating, but that should not hurt research on alternative storage technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cJudgement reserved – Too early to celebrate the lithium find” published in Business Standard on\u00a020th February 2023. Syllabus: GS 1 \u2013 Distribution of key natural resources across the world (including South Asia and the Indian sub-continent). Relevance: About Lithium reserves. News: Recently, a vast deposit of lithium ores… Continue reading Judgement reserved – Too early to celebrate the lithium find<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10503,263],"class_list":["post-227277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","tag-gs-paper-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704940303},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}