Lithium was first discovered as a chemical element in 1817.By the mid-1800s, there was great interest in “urate imbalances”, which were thought to explain a variety of diseases, including mania and depression. Around this time, it was discovered that a solution of lithium carbonate could dissolve stones made of urate.

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Johan August Arfvedson, a Swedish chemist, discovered lithium in ore from a Swedish iron mine in 1817. Arfvedson originally discovered lithium in petalite ore, and subsequently detected it in the minerals spodumene and lepidolite. Arfwedson came from a wealthy family, and had degrees in both law and mineralogy.

Though the discovery is very small in size in the present and stands at only 1,600 tonnes of lithium, it marks an initial success for the nation's attempts to domestically mine the metal in India ...

Lithium was discovered in the mineral petalite (LiAl (Si 2 O 5) 2) by Johann August Arfvedson in 1817. It was first isolated by William Thomas Brande and Sir Humphrey Davy through the electrolysis of lithium oxide (Li 2 O). Today, larger amounts of the metal are obtained through the electrolysis of lithium chloride (LiCl).

With reserves of some 244 million tonnes, lithium deposits discovered by the Canadian company Bacanora in the northeastern Mexican state of Sonora are the world’s largest, containing significantly more than the second-placed Thacker Pass site in the US state of Nevada (178 million tonnes), Mexico’s under secretary of mining Francisco Quiroga claimed in December.