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The government company NLC India is currently interacting with a Russian company to take a stake in a lithium block in Mali, Africa. This will help India to achieve its goal of clean energy. This will also reduce dependence on China and one stable supply will also remain.
In which works do lithium are used?
Apart from generating green energy, lithium is also used to make rechargeable batteries, which are used from smartphones to laptops. Lithium-ion batteries are also used in grid-scale energy storage systems, which also helps to store energy generated from renewable energy sources. It has many other benefits.
Lithium is also called white gold because it contains metals like gold, nickel, nickel or palladium up to 75 %, so it looks white like gold, not like gold, but white.
Which countries do India ask for lithium?
India buys a large part of Lithium from countries like China, Argentina and Australia to meet its needs. As the demand for electric vehicles (EV) and lithium ion batteries in the country is increasing, India has started feeling a decrease in its supply.
As far as China is concerned, there is a huge reserves of lithium here. According to media reports, in the year 2025, China claimed that it had 16.5 percent lithium reserves of the whole world, which was 6.5 percent earlier. India imports lithium on a large scale from China. In the year 2000-21, India bought only lithium worth Rs 3500 crore from China.
What does NLC India do?
NLC is also engaged in the work of power generation along with the mining of India Lignite. This lignite is used to generate electricity in thermal power plants. Apart from this, it also produces renewable energy like solar and wind. The company also sells electricity to state power distribution companies (discoms).
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