Wednesday, 13 June 2012

The Lithium

Hello, hello... hello..
I'm not interesting  in minerals or Geology, but I think this is an interesting topic to write about today.
What is lithium? It is a white-silver metal that belongs to the alkani metal group of chemical elements. Why is lithium important? Because it is used to make batteries, but not any battery, the rechargeable ones. These batteries are the ones you use in your laptop and Mac book, in your car and in your cellphone, and also, these are used in eolian energy. Because of this, lithium has a wordwide prominence.
Chile has the greatest reserves in the world: 7,500 million of tonnes. The world total is 13 millons, so our country has more than half of it!!
Recently,  the Ministry of Minery, has called to tender for exploit the reserve of lithum, with a royalty of 7% of the profit. This tax must be higher (around 40%) and also set up an State company of mining lithum. Therefore, the State will win more money and, in my opinion, it may spend more in social policies and education.


Politicians should be cleverer, not nation-sellers and traitors.

See you in a next post!!

2 comments:

  1. The lithum is the future of Chile!. Is incredible how the politicians sell our future.

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  2. Chile could do great things with the profits of white gold, but governments always think all except the best for the people!

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