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Eugene

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Thu Feb 3, 2022, 06:19 PM Feb 2022

Mexico plans state lithium company, questions Chinese mine

Source: Associated Press

Mexico plans state lithium company, questions Chinese mine

Wed, February 2, 2022, 8:31 PM

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president said Wednesday he will create a state-owned company to mine lithium and appeared to suggest he will seek to cancel one of the few existing permits held by a Chinese company.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador had said in October that he wants to declare lithium a “strategic mineral” and reserve future exploration and mining to the government. Lithium is a key component of batteries.

It hadn't been clear if he would rely on private companies to do the work, which Mexico has no experience in. But López Obrador said Wednesday that a newly created government company will do the mining and processing.

The president also said a private lithium mine in the northern state of Sonora that involves a Chinese company would not be allowed to start production.

“What they want to do is to continue looting and that is over. We are going to take legal steps,” López Obrador said.

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/mexico-plans-state-lithium-company-003157660.html

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Mexico plans state lithium company, questions Chinese mine (Original Post) Eugene Feb 2022 OP
Good that Mexico is kicking the Chinese out SonofBen Feb 2022 #1
 

SonofBen

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1. Good that Mexico is kicking the Chinese out
Thu Feb 3, 2022, 08:29 PM
Feb 2022

And even better that they are despoiling their county so we don't have to mine that filthy stuff in Nevada.

Hold strong Max!

“We are not leaving until this project is canceled,” said Max Wilbert, of the Protect Thacker Pass campaign. “If need be, this will come down to direct action. We mean to put ourselves in between the machines and this place.”

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07112021/lithium-mining-thacker-pass-nevada-electric-vehicles-climate/

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