(TibetanReview.net, Jan25’26) – China says it has achieved a major technological breakthrough which makes much more profitable its extraction of lithium, often referred to as “white gold”, from its salt lake lithium resources. “China’s” primary lithium mines are concentrated in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and Qinghai province as well as other historically Tibetan areas in Sichuan province, besides Xinjiang, along with significant lepidolite deposits in Jiangxi province.
The key locations include the Jiajika and Lijiagou mines in Sichuan’s Amdo Ngaba region, salt lakes in the Qaidam Basin (Qinghai), and the Zabuye Salt Lake in TAR, all parts of historial Tibet.
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