Lithium, a key metal for the energy transition

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8 ай бұрын

Lithium is one of the really crucial metals for the energy transition because it is needed in batteries, and batteries in turn are a key component in electric vehicles. Let's explore with Dr Taija Torvela where lithium actually comes from!
This video is part of the KZbin channel "Our Metallic Earth".
#lithium #energytransition #batterymetals #geology #mining #minerals #criticalminerals #exploration #metals #decarbonisation #netzero #electriccar

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@Chunky365 7 ай бұрын

Hello from Denver, Colorado USA. Just want to say that I really appreciate the videos, especially to outcropping in-situ field examples. The diagrams showing ore formation processes followed by on-site field examples is really helping my understanding of how to recognize zones in the field. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!

@ourmetallicearth 7 ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm very glad you find them helpful :)

@sayarci7817 26 күн бұрын

A very good overview of Lithium .. Thank you

@carltuckerson7718 8 ай бұрын

Just got the email from the Geo-Tectonics group. Great videos and I appreciate you sharing. Close friends and family of mine have several thousand acres of Lithium claims here in the US for solution mining.

@DavidHuber63 2 ай бұрын

Wonderful

@Grumpyoldman037 8 ай бұрын

I really enjoyed this video. Some of your other videos I could not hear well, but this one came through loud and clear. It is always fun to find out where some of our common materials originate from. Thank you!

@ourmetallicearth 8 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@StereoSpace 6 ай бұрын

There was recently a large lithium find in the USA: Geologists have discovered a massive lithium deposit within the McDermitt Caldera along the Nevada-Oregon border, potentially revolutionizing the global lithium supply chain. The deposit is estimated to contain 20 to 40 million metric tonnes of lithium, with unprecedented quality that surpasses any previous find.

@Fusako8 8 ай бұрын

Another great video. Audio is much improved. Not too far from where I live in Oregon we (apparently, I wouldn't know how to test it) have dendritic intrusion of manganese into some of our agates. I was out collecting some blue agate samples and found what looked to me like a fern imprint that I later discovered was a large dendrite. (The agate cleaved right on the intrusion)

@stefkuna 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for putting my work into context. I'm a geophysicist with Bell Geospace and I flew the Cornish Lithiium full tensor gravity gradiometry survey in early 2022. We fly at around 80m altitude and the views were spectacular! I've been at it for over 20 years and up until the 2008 crash, when mineral prices dropped, most of our exporation was for metals and diamonds (we even flew a Zeppelin in Botswana!). Since then it's been largely oil and gas but I see from your videos that the demand for many metals is expected to outstrip supply. Perhaps I can look forward to some more exciting surveys!

@ourmetallicearth 2 ай бұрын

Oh that's cool, I have a PhD student starting this October looking at testing rock properties and geophysical tools for exploration of geothermal lithium in Cornwall. It's a collab with Cornish Lithium so it's very likely we'll be looking at your data too!

@stefkuna 2 ай бұрын

@@ourmetallicearth I hope the data is useful! The gradiometer responds to density contrasts but with much higher resolution than scalar gravity surveys and the full tensor measurement allows some clever 3D modelling. We're currently flying geothermal surveys in Germany too 😀

@howardsimpson489 2 ай бұрын

All sources of lithium are going to be important. Number three on the periodic table indicates metalic reactivity, the best and lightest battery metal despite problems. As fossil fuel use declines, battery use will increase significantly.

@1000000trs 7 ай бұрын

Your youtube site is very interesting. How did you become interested in occurrences of metals in particular ?

@ourmetallicearth 7 ай бұрын

Glad you like it :) My specialism is structural geology but I've always had a bit of an interest in mineralogy and ores, including spending some time in ores exploration before pursuing an academic career! I do like to be able to apply my research skills to solve real-world problems and do something that hopefully benefits the society or industry directly, rather than just do academic research. So I was very happy to have the opportunity to get into ore geology research after joining Leeds University.