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Global lithium production by country and type 2009-2015

Lithium production worldwide from 2009 to 2015 by country and type (in metric tons)

The data displays the lithium production worldwide from 2009 to 2015, by country and type. Australia produced an estimated 490 thousand metric tons of spodumene in 2015, while Chile produced 50.4 thousand metric tons of lithium carbonate that year.

Australia, spodumene 197482 421391 415000 490000
Chile, subsurface brine:
lithium carbonate		 25154 59933 52358 50418
Zimbabwe, amblygonite,
eucryptite, lepidolite, petalite,
and spodumene		 50000 48000 50000 50000
Portugal, lepidolite 37359 37534 19940 17120
Argentina, subsurface brine:
lithium carbonate		 8574 10024 9248 14137
China, carbonate 20000 11300 11200 10700
Brazil, concentrates 15929 7820 7982 8500
Argentina, subsurface brine:
lithium chloride		 4279 4605 5156 5848
Chile, subsurface brine:
lithium hydroxide		 2987 5800 4197 3888
Chile, subsurface brine:
lithium chloride		 2397 3864 4091 2069
United States, carbonate 4600

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