The potential for lithium in the UK

This profile provides an overview of the geological potential for lithium in the UK. It forms part of a series on the minerals the UK requires to transition its economy in the coming decades to net-zero emissions. It was produced by the British Geological Survey for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy as part of the UK Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre.

The data will be of value to all those interested in the geological potential for lithium in the UK.

Date (Publication): 2022

Date

Code: The potential for lithium in the UK

Status: Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	R. Shaw	rashaw@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

Lithium metal
Mineral occurrences
exploration and production

dataCentre

MET4TECH

BGS Geoscience Thesaurus

Economics

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: no limitations to public access

Use constraints: Copyright

Spatial representation type: Text, table

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Language: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Economy
Geoscientific information

Begin date: 2022

Description: UK

Supplemental Information: Source document: Met4Tech_Metadata_BGS_CMIC_Lithium.2022.docx

Reference system identifier: WGS 84 Latitude Longitude

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Name	Version
PDF

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://ukcmic.org/downloads/reports/the-potential-for-lithium-in-the-uk-2022.pdf

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: The dataset is based on public domain data and information on lithium and it has been reviewed and edited by the internal BGS experts

Metadata

File identifier: 2030ce38-a1f7-4e94-9ab7-abfd8fe2ca37 XML

Metadata language: English

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2025-03-21

Metadata standard name: Met4Tech metadata register

Metadata standard version: 0.1

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Laura Williams	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact

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