since the very first automobile hit the road in eight hundred eighty five cars have changed their lives. countless millions of them have rolled off the tree feel the most important things speed and looks environmental friendliness didn t play a big role until now e-cards could help us achieve the dream of a cleaner greener future of the batteries and then rely on lithium in germany plans to mine the meshal are ramping up. the alps could be a good mountains are situated on the border between germany and the czech republic here near the town is invite is a treasure worth an estimated one hundred fourteen billion euro europe s largest lithium deposit a group of researchers from the fight that university of mining are descending eighty metres beneath the surface to examine the reserves the valuable natural resource is hidden in this glittering rock lithium mica or is involved. in the
resource is hidden in this glittering rock lithium mica or is involved i. don t see any look right here in this area is nearly one hundred percent. so it s a very lithium rich though and for nearly five hundred years this was an active mine that yielded mainly ten people knew there was let in here but they had no real use for it to fly back researchers have assessed the size of the deposit. in the. foreign positing a compass is some ninety thousand tonnes of lithium out of work but that s just a third of the overall deposit there s twice that over on the chalk side so if we add it all up incorporating some of the older calculations we arrive at an estimate of at least two hundred fifty thousand tonnes of metallic lithium compared to other deposits around the world for example those in australia this is certainly an important deposit and of course. for years the lithium in this mine remained virtually untouched there was no way to extract it on