Europe has massive lithium reserves in Germany, Serbia, Portugal and ukraine but perhaps more importantly it also has friendly relations with other countries with reserves

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b65e8bee43c2ed0 a day ago | parent [-]

if those reserves were economically viable to extract, they would be already being extracted.

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legulere a day ago | parent | next [-]

Like this? https://www.thinkgeoenergy.com/vulcan-energy-achieves-drilli...

Economic viability depends on many things, lithium prices have been pretty volatile in the past, battery production in Europe as customers are just scaling up.

	▲	youngtaff a day ago \| parent [-]
		Or this https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/26/cornwall...

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helsinkiandrew a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Everything depends on demand. Much of US shale oil hasn’t been economical to extract at times in the past decade. If oil drops below $60 most of the newer basins are not profit making. If oil demand (or OPEC) pushes oil below $35 the rest of US oil isn’t economical.

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stavros a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Prices change.