Oooooh, best we can do is let corporations rape and pillage the land, and make citizens pay for the whole operation through taxes, sorry.

Best we can do is sell it all for 2% of its worth

Let’s sell this off to multinationals ASAP so we can accelerate pillaging the land without consultation, outsource the jobs and ensure the fewest Canadians benefit from the windfall.

Ah! Someone who's familiar with Alberta oil & gas extraction.

That’s a perfect description of Carney’s MO.

It's funny cause it's true. Trump wants to invade Greenland and Canada; it's not just because he's a piece of shit dictator. He's after resources for his cronies.

“This ‘syrup’ comprises a clear and present danger to the United States of America. Operation ‘Freedom Fries’ has been authorised!”

Well take it by any force needed, brother. Citation: iraq 1 and Iraq 2

You want some of the impacts of making those value added products in your back yard?

A key reason why Canada ships its oil, lumber, and minerals elsewhere for processing is because there is a human cost to processing these things that moat people don't want to pay.

Also, where clean processing is possible it makes processed materials cost-prohibitive when you can just buy the stuff from jurisdictions where health and environmental laws are lax or non-existent and you can process however you like.

Well, tax the dirty processors and eliminate them from the supply chain, you might suggest! That's not easier either, see eliminating forced labour from the supply chain as an example.

I'm not saying nothing should or could be done about Canada's extraction-only economy, just that it isn't as easy it may appear at first glance.

Maybe Alzheimer's as well. There is new research on lithium that shows promise for that.

Hooray!... Fuck!

He's already sniffin'. He can smell it with his greed.

This is the part that I find interesting:

If Cisco ultimately proves its larger target, the project could anchor a domestic lithium supply chain linking Quebec mines and battery factories.

Sodium Ion is about to make Lithium much less of a big deal.

Sodium Ion is great diversity source for batteries, but they are inferior in many respects.

I don't actually remember any articles that claimed there were lithium shortages in that there isn't enough on the planet, but rather that China is the only country with a working supply chain.

It’s one of the most abundant elements out there

I mean, it's not. Either in the crust or the universe - stellar nucleosynthesis skips straight to carbon.

Your point still stands, though, since abundance is only one of the factors that goes into how easy something is to recover.

I suppose it's a bit like diamonds, which are actually really abundant, just not always very accessible.

Lithium is quite rare. Essentially all the lithium that exists was created at the big bang, and since then the total supply has been diminishing with each generation of stars - they fuse lithium into heavier elements.

There's less lithium all the time

This shit really bothers me.

Wow that's great for the people.

Well yes, 3 of them

Depends where it is. Where it is in this case, it seems more likely than not it's on Crown land, so yes, until a producer buys it from us.

You mean...the 51st state of 'Merica?

Congrats on being the only person that apparently read the article before commenting.

Why not just do uBlock instead of individual blocklists?

Not backing up the site, but are you running an Adblock? I had no ads when I opened it.

The article itself has many caveats. I wouldn't pay too much attention to an attention-grabbing headline.

I am sure you are thinking of BreX.

Other than Canadian investors and mining as a general theme, I cannot think of a single reason to link the two stories.

Also, BreX never claimed “inexhaustible” anything and was certainly not “the last time” for anything either.

Canada has more mining companies and mining investment than any country in the world. These kinds of discoveries are common-place. There have been many, many discoveries and success stories in the decades since BreX.

And this is just another Lithium deposit. Not the biggest in the world and probably not even the biggest in the James Bay district.