Britain needs to embrace significantly increased mining on UK soil for raw materials vital to new low-carbon technologies as a trade-off for a green future Metals such as lithium and cobalt, which are key to components such as batteries for electric vehicles, need to be sourced from mines in Britain and Europe until at least 2030.
British Lithium plans to open a mine capable of producing 21,000 tonnes of the most in-demand lithium compound (lithium carbonate) by 2026 by drilling in existing disused quarries.
