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I have no idea why people seem to think ChatGPT is correct all the time.

And even when it's broadly right, it manages to be wrong (ask it for coal reserves and it'll give you a real world source, a list of countries which is correct, and some percentages which... don't match the source it claims to have taken them from)

You might as well put "well according to my mate Dave who claims to know everything"

People have been conditioned to mistrust everything, even the premise of objective reality, to the point that they don't believe it matters - ChatGPT being wrong some of the time is still seen as preferable to the perceived status quo that all media, politicians, scientists, scholars and everyone on the internet actively lie to you and manipulate you all the time.

I am not, take it with a grain of salt. There is first reference which is not ChatGPT and you can check the answer and go in deep with the main point.

Isn't ChatGPT currently stuck in the past?

I think your numbers are total's in that country. The article claims this is the biggest single "reserve" (I assume they mean deposit?). But your core point is not wrong: there is still much more available in the counties you list...

There are generally 3 categories:

* Production: What's been mined & produced

* Reserves: What's economically viable to produce

* Resources: All the mineral we know about, including that which is not economically or technically viable to mine

Numbers (2021) I've seen show total world reserves as ~ 20MT. Total Resources are more like 90MT.

Bolivia has a large percentage of the resources (ca 20MT), but no appreciable reserves (according to USGS) and I haven't seen production numbers from it.

Even Germany has lithium

nsenergybusiness.com is being fast and loose and not particulalry precise with technical mining jargon.

JORC standards have it that:

    A resource is that amount of a geologic commodity that exists in both discovered and undiscovered deposits—by definition, then, a “best guess.”

    Reserves are that subgroup of a resource that have been discovered, have a known size, and can be extracted at a profit.

[1] https://www.jorc.org/docs/JORC_code_2012.pdf

While this is an Australian standard it (and near equivilants) are the standards used on the largest mineral exchanges on the globe ( TSX et al )

The above 21 million tonne figure for Boliva is a best guess resource guesstimate and not an actual Proven Reserve estimate backed by sampling + geophysical survey + drilling + staged Technical Reports.

For that matter Iran here is asserting that they have an actual reserve backed by drill data and tech reports which leaves the question of:

Where is the published data?

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