BORIS JOHNSON’S post-Brexit Global Britain business agenda has received a massive boost after a pioneering Cornish mining company recorded better-than-expected results on lithium deposits found deep beneath the county’s soil. Battery gigafactories: Inside Tesla’s high volume battery plant.
The metal – a key component in electric car batteries – was found in underground hot springs just north of the town of Redruth. And tests on a 13-tonne bulk sample of hard rock being analysed by British Lithium’s metallurgical laboratory have revealed higher grades of the metal than previously anticipated.
