India’s objective is to secure battery materials supply chains amid soaring ambitions to give way to a homegrown ‘green energy’ transition and become a manufacturing behemoth in electronics, especially EVs and semiconductors
Argentina India Lithium Mining: India should source lithium directly from Argentina rather than from China and reduce dependence on China. Presently, China is India’s leading supplier of lithium.
The rivalry for access to raw materials to facilitate the energy transition will turn the “Green Great Game” into one of the defining geopolitical features of the 21st century.
Aresenic, Germanium, Gallium, Indium, and Tellurium are the critical minerals marked for solar PV manufacturing, out of these, China has highest reserves for gallium and tellurium