In search of lithium

Exploring geology, electric vehicles, and a short history of Cornish mining

“Cornish lads are fishermen and Cornish lads are miners too. / But when the fish and tin are gone, what are the Cornish boys to do?”

- Cornish Lads, by musician Roger Bryant

Some say there is mining in their blood.

This much is immediately evident from my excursion to Redruth, a town and civil parish in Cornwall, where I am greeted by a two-metre-tall bro…