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In a first, Lithium reserve found in Jammu and Kashmir

I hope India develops thorium based SMRs, that will be true revolutionary for Indian intent for energy independence.
Only way to do away from 70% dependence on fossil fuels is to do SMR's in a big way, upto 300MW reactors. We are at 30MW level and to scale the operation to 300 MW, we need to invite private players. The technology has to be safe and secure for this to happen. Maybe another 10 to 15 years, if we are serious about this.
 
Only way to do away from 70% dependence on fossil fuels is to do SMR's in a big way, upto 300MW reactors. We are at 30MW level and to scale the operation to 300 MW, we need to invite private players. The technology has to be safe and secure for this to happen. Maybe another 10 to 15 years, if we are serious about this.

India has the largest reserves of Thorium, we have enough energy to power India for the next 1000 years.
 
" Why India could have a lot more lithium "
  • Three of the 19 exploratory projects taken up by the GSI have graduated from G4 to G3, and one to G2.
  • These are in the Sirohi district (Sibagaon block) and Nagaur districts (Mohangarh block) of Rajasthan and Reasi district of J&K.
  • It is the Reasi district find that is in the news now. The next could well be the two G3s in Rajasthan.
  • The Rewat Hill block, also of Nagaur district in Rajasthan, is the one that has graduated to G2.
Considering that exploration for lithium is still young in India and given that there have been quite a number of G4 and G3 finds, it is not out of place to dream about more major lithium discoveries in India.
 


Fascist then.

Good idea , we can export it to muslim countries .


Rest assured Hindus will remain fascist for next hundred years .

Get ready to get sanctioned for the next hundred plus years.
 
every large country has more then enough of everything if you dig deep enough. Its only a matter of whether it is worth excavating the substance. Everyday massive gold mines, oil wells, cobalt mines etc are discovered but no one ever digs them up because its not feasible. Our technology can scan for material that we have no hope of digging up in any major quantity. Not to be a debby downer, but if the lithium was mineable, it would have been discovered decades ago. Most of these 'discoveries' we hear about is new scanning technology detecting amounts of rare resources at depths that we can not reach/mine profitably with current levels of technology (within the next few decades).

Just think about the amount of resources under the worlds oceans, seas. It would dwarf the rest of land resources by many times. In the future when we have the technology to mine these areas profitably, only thing that matters is having a military to back you up and you can get anything you want.
 
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Get ready to get sanctioned for the next hundred plus years.
Why 100 ? Why not 1,000 or 10,000 years ?

every large country has more then enough of everything if you dig deep enough. Its only a matter of whether it is worth excavating the substance. Everyday massive gold mines, oil wells, cobalt mines etc are discovered but no one ever digs them up because its not feasible. Our technology can scan for material that we have no hope of digging up in any major quantity. Not to be a debby downer, but if the lithium was mineable, it would have been discovered decades ago.
No one searched for it decades ago, nor was anyone interested in this technology, no one thought it was worth Carrying a massive survey of a site in a state which is a geopolitical hotbed. But when we recognised the need to find our own lithium resources then we started searching for it, india only started it's lithium search in 2019 and found a small reserve in karnataka which only had 14,000 tonnes of lithium. But then we searched across the nation and finally after a centralised survey we found this massive site with 5.9 million tonnes ( 3X larger than China's current reserve). So your argument that it would have been discovered decades earlier is logicless, to discover a resource you need to have a need or driving force to find it. In The decades which you're talking about india was not industrialised back then. But today that's no longer the case, the need for EVs and green energy solutions has forced india to look for lithium resources which it never looked for before.
 
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Ok, I was watching this news and reading more. I usually don't trust media at face value, found something interesting. Here's someone opinion who is from the minerals exploration industry.

THIS LITHIUM WILL NOT POWER THE INDIAN BATTERIES (linkedin.com)

In recent years, the Indian media has broken a number of stories on national TV about the discoveries of huge mineral resources, often reported as "reserves." There was this discovery of a huge 'reserve' of gold in the Sonbhadra district of UP in 2020, followed by another discovery of huge 'reserve' of gold in Bihar, a year later. The minister of mines also made an announcement about the latter in the Indian Parliament.

Unfortunately, all of these news stories originated in the government's exploration departments.

The latest in this series is a news story on the discovery of a huge ‘reserve’ (5.8 Million tonnes of Lithium) in the Jammu and Kashmir state associated with a Bauxite deposit.

The story caught the attention of the global exploration and mining community, unfortunately for the wrong reasons.

Firstly, most of lithium extracted worldwide is from liquid brine reservoirs beneath salt flats (salars), in southwestern South America and China.

The other major source of lithium is pegmatite hosted lithium ore deposits. These are often richer in lithium content than the salar brines. Although there are over 100 different minerals with some amount of lithium, only five (spodumene, lepidolite, petalite, amblygonite, and eucryptite) are mined.

However, extraction costs from pegmatite ore are nearly twice that of brines due to their mining, milling, and metallurgy costs.

The saleable product in both brine and pegmatite hosted mines is commonly Lithium carbonate.

Lithium is one of the secondary elements occurring in bauxite, where lithium content can reach up to 0.3% (as Li2O). Most Li in bauxitic ores is mainly hosted in illite, a clay mineral, whereas Li in aluminous claystone is mainly hosted in kaolinite, another clay mineral. Hectorite is a silicate of Na, Mg, and Li and contains about 0.5% Li. It is a member of the smectite family of clay minerals and is considered the most widespread among the Li-clay minerals. However, the extraction of Lithium from the clays is challenging and costly.

Jammu and Kashmir has a few small, isolated bauxite deposits. A 3-4 m thick bauxite deposit occurs in Salal area in the Reasi district. This is apparently developed over the Jangalgali Formation of Upper Cretaceous to Eocene age.

Exploration by the Geological Survey of India estimated an Inferred Resource of 5.9 million tonnes with an average SiO2 of 37% and Al2O3 of 45.3%. This is a high silica bauxite and will not be suitable for most alumina plants unless beneficiated. Among the trace elements analyzed, Li is reported to be 332 ppm.

This equates to a mere 2950 of contained metal. The saleable lithium carbonate equivalent is 15,703 tonnes. The uncertainties on the host mineral, the metallurgy, etc remain.


Obviously, this will not catapult India to the status of the second largest lithium-resource rich country, as claimed in the media. India needs to look elsewhere to power its huge battery requirements.
 
Good idea , we can export it to muslim countries .


Rest assured Hindus will remain fascist for next hundred years .

It's why Jinnah was right, why partition of India was right in 1947 and right in 2023

Indian Muslims need separation
Kashmir is a Muslim majority state, it cannot be stuck with a hindutva extremist communal India

Freedom is essential for Indian Muslims and Kashmiri, how they fcuk are the expected to live alongside hindus

Ok, I was watching this news and reading more. I usually don't trust media at face value, found something interesting. Here's someone opinion who is from the minerals exploration industry.

THIS LITHIUM WILL NOT POWER THE INDIAN BATTERIES (linkedin.com)

Let the fcukers dream,, Kashmir needs to be free either way
 
every large country has more then enough of everything if you dig deep enough. Its only a matter of whether it is worth excavating the substance. Everyday massive gold mines, oil wells, cobalt mines etc are discovered but no one ever digs them up because its not feasible. Our technology can scan for material that we have no hope of digging up in any major quantity. Not to be a debby downer, but if the lithium was mineable, it would have been discovered decades ago. Most of these 'discoveries' we hear about is new scanning technology detecting amounts of rare resources at depths that we can not reach/mine profitably with current levels of technology (within the next few decades).

Just think about the amount of resources under the worlds oceans, seas. It would dwarf the rest of land resources by many times. In the future when we have the technology to mine these areas profitably, only thing that matters is having a military to back you up and you can get anything you want.

Indians and logic don't go together.

They think they have become the new superpower of the world replacing China.

Jokers!
 
India has the largest reserves of Thorium, we have enough energy to power India for the next 1000 years.

Thorium is just one of the buzz-words that Indian establishmenters latch onto regularly - "Game changer", "State of the art", "Deliverables", "Profit and loss analysis", "National interest", "EV", "Indigenous" etc. :lol:

So, can you develop a thorium-powered electric generator for a stove or a wearable computer ?
 
Thorium is just one of the buzz-words that Indian establishmenters latch onto regularly - "Game changer", "State of the art", "Deliverables", "Profit and loss analysis", "National interest", "EV", "Indigenous" etc. :lol:

So, can you develop a thorium-powered electric generator for a stove or a wearable computer ?

So, can you read a book on Physics of class 12 standard?
 
That itself answers your drive to learn anything. I did waste a lot of time initially in explaining physics and tech related stuffs to you before. But you are here for specific agenda.

@hembo @-=virus=- @ni8mare

1. What is my agenda ?

2. Why did you skip the second part of my post ?
So, can you develop a thorium-powered electric generator for a stove or a wearable computer ?

Now answer my question. :)
 

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