Production · kt Li · 1995–2025 · Energy Institute
Lithium mine production, in thousand tonnes — annual, 1995-2025.
USGS, Mineral Commodity Summaries / Minerals Yearbook (World Mine Production by Country).
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Australia (92 kt), which mines lithium from hard-rock deposits (spodumene), leads Chile (64 kt), which extracts it from brine evaporated in the Atacama Desert — two radically different extraction methods for the same metal, which has become central over the past decade with the rise of electric-vehicle batteries.