The government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador plans to create a state-owned company for the exploration and exploitation of lithium, announced the Secretary of Energy, Rocío Nahle. In an interview to local media, the official highlighted on Wednesday that “lithium is a strategic mineral,” and gave as an example its use as a “raw material for the manufacture of electric batteries.”

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