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[โ€“] B0rax@feddit.org 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You mean power banks to charge your phone?

Most lithium cells will be manufactured in China, mainly because that is where lithium can be found geographically.

[โ€“] Tweak@feddit.uk 14 points 5 days ago

I'm pretty sure lithium can be found in plenty of other places, it's just that lithium mines aren't established for them. I remember reading stories about large lithium deposits being found in Europe.

Apparently Australia actually extracts the vast majority of the world's lithium, roughly twice that of China: https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/the-worlds-lithium-is-mined-in-just-a-handful-of-countries