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The EU's and France's lurch towards lithium is, of course, not just intended to support, and profit, from the energy transition but to buffer an overreliance – and a dominance of future industry – by China, which the US recently accused of “flooding” the market to drive out rivals.
After years of deindustrialisation, France is upping lithium production to support battery manufacturing and the green transition. An employee at a lithium plant belonging to French industrial minerals company Imerys, in Echassierres, central France. Credit: OLIVIER CHASSIGNOLE/AFP via Getty Images.
Lithium de France, a subsidiary of French Arverne group, is also developing a lithium brine geothermal project in Alsace. The company has just concluded a prefeasibility study on surface elements of the project and is currently awaiting its first drilling permit to confirm the resource.
One of the country's largest lithium projects, EMILI, is being developed by French multinational Imerys. The project in Beauvoir, central France, where lithium was first detected in the 1960s, hopes to produce enough lithium per year, over 25 years, to power 700,000 EVs.
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