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NeilBlanchard · 12-22-2014, 10:37 PM

I think lithium is not so much mined as gathered:

The sun does much of the work, I think? There are only a few pounds of lithium in a battery pack, if I am not mistaken. It may be the production of the battery:

http://www.transportation.anl.gov/pdfs/TA/149.pdf

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