The first country in the CIS is about to extract and produce Lithium
Tajikistan is set to become the first state in the CIS to produce lithium a critical metal for the green transition. Tajikistan possesses significant reserves of 10 out of 12 critical metal. Six of them is being processed in the territory of the post soviet country. Based on the words minister of Industry: “We determined the we will be engaged in the global supply chain of rear earth elements. This rear earth elements is important in solar and wind power plants and in the automotive industry.
Ministry of Industry noted that back in the Soviet era there were 3 manufacturing plants for rear earth element two was in the Russia, one in the Tajikistan.