One of the largest lithium deposits in Europe, Rozhin, has come under Russian control

https://eadaily.com/en/news/2025/01/04/one-of-the-largest-lithium-deposits-in-europe-rozhin-has-come-under-russian-control

Posted by Gerakison

4 comments

  1. Lithium is one of the most valuable resources at the moment due to the rise of electric battery production for EV. Access to lithium deposits could improve the Russian economy while depleting Ukraine’s and funding its conflicts in the mid-term

  2. FYI:

    Shevchenko (Ukrainian: Шевченко) is a rural settlement in Pokrovsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, eastern **Ukraine.**

    Now that Russia has captured this resource, might they be willing to end the war?

  3. How come all of these resources supposedly worth [trillions upon trillions](https://imgur.com/a/o4Y9chV) of dollars only became important and talked about after the war started? I even double checked google results before feb 2022, no mentions of the supposedly 10, 15, 30 (growing each time) trillion dollar deposites of coal (lol), gas (lol), iron or other minerals. Is this like an attempt to show unconvinced western voters, look, there’s a bunch of valuable stuff there, that’s why we need to support Ukraine?

  4. According to [this paper](https://www.e3s-conferences.org/articles/e3sconf/abs/2024/56/e3sconf_sep2024_01001/e3sconf_sep2024_01001.html) the Rozhin (aka Shevchenkivske) deposit is 12-14 million tonnes of ~1% lithium oxide. That is a small deposit and is globally insignificant. I don’t know anything about the project – maybe it can be mined profitably – but it does not move the needle in the global lithium market or for Russia or Ukraine. There are hundreds of deposits of this size in Canada, USA, China, Australia etc. that are not being mined because they are too small to be economic.

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