{"id":13998,"date":"2021-02-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/uncategorized\/05-02-2021\/discovery-of-indias-first-ever-lithium-reserves\/"},"modified":"2021-02-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T00:00:00","slug":"discovery-of-indias-first-ever-lithium-reserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/05-02-2021\/discovery-of-indias-first-ever-lithium-reserves","title":{"rendered":"Discovery Of India&#8217;s First Ever Lithium Reserves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In News- <\/strong>Recently ,the Government confirmed the\u00a0 <strong>presence of lithium deposits<\/strong> of <strong>1,600 tonnes<\/strong> in <strong>Mandya district of Karnataka.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The development comes as\u00a0 last year\u00a0 India got into an <strong>agreement with an Argentinian firm to jointly prospect lithium<\/strong> in the <strong>South American nation <\/strong>which has <strong>17 million tonnes of lithium metal reserves.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Plans for <strong>commercial exploitation<\/strong> of the<strong> lithium deposits <\/strong>can commence after the technical, social and economic feasibility studies in the area.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About Lithium: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lithium is a key element for <strong>new technologies.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Properties:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a<strong> chemical element<\/strong> with the <strong>symbol Li<\/strong> which\u00a0 is a<strong> soft, silvery-white metal.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>highly reactive and flammable<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is an <strong>alkali metal and a rare metal.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Extraction-<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Lithium can be extracted in different ways, depending on the type of the deposit .<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0It is generally done either through<strong> solar evaporation <\/strong>of large<strong> brine pools <\/strong>or by <strong>hard-rock extraction of the ore.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Uses <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is added to<strong> glasses and ceramics<\/strong> for resistance to<strong> temperature fluctuation<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is used in <strong>heat-resistant greases<\/strong> and <strong>lubricants,<\/strong> and it is alloyed with <strong>aluminium and copper <\/strong>for <strong>lightweight aerial components.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The well-known uses of lithium are in lithium ion batteries.<\/li>\n<li>It is also used in <strong>psychiatric medications<\/strong> and in <strong>dental imprints<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>The lighter of two lithium isotopes is used in the production of Tritium, a key component of<strong> nuclear weapons<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0Leading producer-<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bolivia <\/strong>is the leading producer with 2.10 crore tonnes lithium reserves, and Argentina has 1.70 crore tonnes of Lithium.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lithium in India <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>In India,there is some potential for recovering lithium from the <strong>brines of Sambhar<\/strong> and<strong> Pachpadra in Rajasthan<\/strong>, and <strong>Rann of Kachchh in Gujarat,Mandya district of Karnataka.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>India currently imports all its lithium needs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swarajyamag.com\/insta\/modi-govt-confirms-discovery-of-indias-first-ever-lithium-reserves-worth-1600-tonnes-in-karnatakas-mandya\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Source: <\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/swarajyamag.com\/insta\/modi-govt-confirms-discovery-of-indias-first-ever-lithium-reserves-worth-1600-tonnes-in-karnatakas-mandya\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Swarajya<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In News- Recently ,the Government confirmed the\u00a0 presence of lithium deposits of 1,600 tonnes in Mandya district of Karnataka. The development comes as\u00a0 last year\u00a0 India got into an agreement with an Argentinian firm to jointly prospect lithium in the South American nation which has 17 million tonnes of lithium metal reserves. Plans for commercial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-13998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-gs1"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2023\/07\/3584536current-affairs.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}