India announces second lithium discovery in 3 months

India announced its second lithium discovery after 3 months of disclosing huge reserves of the rare metal estimated at 5.9 million tons.

India found huge lithium reserves in a plateau that produced heavily tungsten ore during Britain’s occupation of the country at the beginning of the 20th century, which could outstrip the quantities it discovered in the Jammu and Kashmir regions during February 2023.

Officials of the Geographical Survey of India revealed evidence of massive quantities of crude that was the head of the electric vehicle battery industry in the “Renavat” plateau of the “Dagana” region of Rajasthan.

India is importing all its lithium needs from abroad, as it seeks to electrify the transport sector, and within the framework of plans to achieve carbon neutrality in 2070, as seen by the specialized energy platform.

Over the past February, India’s Ministry of Mines had announced that 5.9 million tons of lithium crude reserves had been found, for the first time in the country in Jammu and Kashmir’s disputed territory with Pakistan in decades.