[dkjaudyeqooe]

Why Brazil? Australia is the world's biggest producer of lithium minerals and has the second biggest proven reserves. They're also probably the US's closest ally.

https://natural-resources.canada.ca/our-natural-resources/mi...

[contingencies]

And owned by China https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/wa-lithium-mine-sn...

[dkjaudyeqooe]

Hardly. Chinese companies have some investments in some Australian lithium companies, not all of every company, or even a majority.

[tomrod]

Not lithium, rare earth minerals.

Yeah, lithium is much more plentiful.

[philipkglass]

Lithium ion batteries don't use rare earth minerals (which are the lanthanides plus yttrium and scandium [1]). Nickel metal hydride batteries contain some light lanthanides, but these new battery factories are all for lithium ion batteries.

[1] https://www.usgs.gov/centers/national-minerals-information-c...