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Typically mined by (say) first nation Australians in Laverton, Western Australia from Mount Weld mine: https://youtu.be/LXEbznvl0wM?t=108

Then shipped to Malaysia as concentrate for cracking & leaching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oij3c8GGWmw

Other similar stories exist in the supply chain, but that's one high volume link.

Not hippies of the 1960s San Francisco Haight-Ashbury ilk, but certainly regular people about the globe.

See the IEA: Global Supply Chains of EV Batteries (2022) - https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/4eb8c252-76b1-4710-...

    Most key minerals are mined in resource-rich countries such as Australia, Chile and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and handled by a few major companies.

    Governments in Europe and the United States have bold public sector initiatives to develop domestic battery supply chains, but the majority of the supply chain is likely to remain Chinese through 2030.

    For example, 70% of battery production capacity announced for the period to 2030 is in China.

Note: that's "majority owned by Chinese companies" not "entirely within the country of China".