Mineral Commodity Databases
Database of hard-rock lithium deposits
Scope
The global demand for lithium is surging, with the market expected to triple or quadruple in the next decade.
In line with the increasing worldwide demand, exploration and mining of hard rock lithium deposits has grown significantly during the last years. Currently, over 120 public and private companies are actively exploring for, or mining, lithium minerals from a hard rock environment.
One of the advantages of hard rock lithium deposits over other sources, such as lithium-rich brines, is their global distribution, with known occurrences in more than 60 countries distributed over all continents (Figure 1). In addition, hard rock lithium mineral deposits do not only serve as a source for lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide used in the battery market, but can also yield high-purity mineral products for the ceramic and glass industries.
Available databases on the occurrence of hard rock lithium minerals are often restricted to a few dozen well-known deposits, often lack consistency (for example concerning the type of resource estimates used) and rarely cite the sources from which the original information has been extracted. This renders data verification and comparison very difficult, if not impossible.
Tercienco BV, in cooperation with GF Consult BV, have constructed a comprehensive, internally consistent and traceable database of the currently-known hard rock lithium mineral occurrences in the World.
The database contains about 780 sites where such Li-mineralisation is known to exist, including 20 operating mines, 57 projects that are in development or feasibility-stage, and more than 450 projects that are currently in an earlier stage of exploration.
Product & Price
The database is provided in Microsoft Excel-format, as a PDF-document and as a KML-file that can be directly opened in Google Earth. A list of bibliographic references for the citations made in the Database is provided as a separate CSV-file and PDF-document. Please contact us for more information and a price inquiry.