PUBLISHED : 20 Jan 2024 at 04:00
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment said it has not confirmed a claim that Thailand is home to the world’s third-largest site of lithium. However, the ministry’s top authority confirmed that the deposits in the country’s southern province of Phangnga have a higher content of lithium than many other key deposits around the world.
The statement followed an earlier citing by deputy government spokeswoman Rudklao Suwankiri that the county had found more than 14.8 million tonnes of lithium. According to her post on the government website on Thursday, the discovery “has the country the third-largest reserves of the mineral in the world after Bolivia and Argentina”.
Lithium is regarded as a…
