Lithium: BGS Commodity Review

This dataset explains definitions, mineralogy and deposits of lithium. It provides a detailed description of the extraction and processing of lithium and its environmental implications. It provides world resources, reserves, and production figures of lithium.

The data will be of value to all those interested in tracking and understanding the lithium mineralogy, deposit types, uses, and potential resources and reserves in the UK and globally.

Date (Publication): 2016

Date

Code: Lithium: BGS Commodity Review

Status: Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	N. Idoine	nkay@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

Lithium metal
resources
reserves
global 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

Spatial resolution

No information provided.

Language: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Economy
Geoscientific information

Begin date: 2016

Description: UK

Description: World

Supplemental Information: Source document: Met4Tech_Metadata_BGS lithium profile_2016.docx

Reference system identifier: WGS 84 Latitude Longitude

Distribution format

Name	Version
PDF

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/534440/1/lithium_profile.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 utilized public-domain data and information on lithium and has been reviewed by internal experts at the British Geological Survey.

Metadata

File identifier: 99eb85f5-2e3b-405c-aa9b-5de2e1d86d3e 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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