The Other Conflict in Kashmir
The contested region has become a flash point in India’s struggle to break its dependence on Chinese lithium.
Illustration by Meg Studer.
In February 2023, the Geological Survey of India announced that it had discovered 5.9 million tons of lithium in Kashmir, a territory claimed by both India and Pakistan. The lode, which would give India the world’s sixth-largest lithium reserve, apparently sits below the sleepy mountain village of Salal, about thirty miles from the line that […]
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