Manitoba aims to be Canada’s lithium hub with new critical minerals strategy

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tanco-0731-ph Manitoba has the potential to become a key hub in the production of lithium, a metal required for electric vehicle batteries, the province’s trade minister Jeff Wharton said as the region attempts to attract more miners through a newly released critical minerals strategy. Canada currently has just two mines that produce lithium and the Tanco mine, located about 160 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg, is one of them. But the mine is owned by a Chinese company, which doesn’t fit Canada’s strategy of lessening dependence on the country amid a rift between the two nations. With several prospectors exploring Manitoba...