{"id":606467,"date":"2023-09-26T09:39:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T04:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=606467"},"modified":"2023-09-26T10:34:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T05:04:36","slug":"govt-to-auction-jammu-kashmirs-lithium-reserves-over-next-few-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-to-auction-jammu-kashmirs-lithium-reserves-over-next-few-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt to auction Jammu &amp; Kashmir&#8217;s lithium reserves over next few weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s federally administered region of Jammu and Kashmir will auction its lithium reserves over the next few weeks, a government source with close knowledge of the matter said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>India, which has been exploring ways to secure supplies of lithium, a critical raw material used to make electric vehicle batteries, in February found its first lithium deposits in Jammu and Kashmir with estimated reserves of 5.9 million tonnes. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The auction will happen soon and some overseas miners have shown interest,&#8221; the source said, declining to be identified because of the sensitive nature of discussions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s federally administered region of Jammu and Kashmir will auction its lithium reserves over the next few weeks, a government source with close knowledge of the matter said on Monday. India, which has been exploring ways to secure supplies of lithium, a critical raw material used to make electric vehicle batteries, in February found its first lithium deposits in Jammu and Kashmir with estimated reserves of 5.9 million tonnes. &#8220;The auction will happen soon and some overseas miners have shown interest,&#8221; the source said, declining to be identified because of the sensitive nature of discussions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}