[seanmcdirmid]

So all of that Australian lithium being shipped off to China, is it being mostly processed in Australia first, or is most of the processing done in China, or something half half?

The main reason America develops great oil tech and not lithium tech vs China is that the USA has lots of oil, while China doesn’t.

[Turskarama]

A lot of it is sent as partially processed ore, but two major reasons for that are: 1) a lot of these mines are very new and 2) Australia in particular is _very bad_ at secondary industries. We have a long history of just sending our minerals and raw food ingredients overseas to be processed and are lacking in expertise.

Here is a recent article about this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/business/australia-lithiu...