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Thailand hopes to start producing lithium from a mine in its southwest in about two years, government and business officials say.
政府和商务官员表示，泰国希望在大约两年内开始在其西南部的一座矿场生产锂。
The mine could help the country become a center for electric vehicle (EV) production.
该矿场可以帮助该国成为电动汽车生产中心。
Lithium is a metal critical to EV battery production.
锂是生产电动汽车电池的关键金属。
Establishing lithium mines would put Thailand in a special position among major producers of the metal because the country is also developing an EV production industry.
建设锂矿场将使泰国在主要锂生产国中处于特殊地位，因为该国也在发展电动汽车生产行业。
Chinese carmakers already promised to invest $1.44 billion in that industry in Thailand.
中国汽车制造商已经承诺在泰国的电动汽车业投资14.4亿美元。
The Australian company Miner Pan Asia Metals is preparing to register for mining permits in March for the Reung Kiet project.
澳大利亚矿业公司泛亚金属正准备在3月份为隆科特锂项目申请采矿许可。
The project is taking place in the country's Phang-Nga area.
该项目正在泰国的攀牙府进行。
The property could also include the proposed Bang I Tum mine.
该地还可能包括拟议中的锂矿项目Bang I Tum。
Pan Asia's leader Paul Lock told Reuters that the company is "optimistic" about starting lithium chemical production from Reung Kiet by early 2026.
泛亚的领导者保罗·洛克告诉路透社，该公司对在2026年初从隆科特锂项目开始生产锂化工产品持乐观态度。
Thailand's Department of Primary Industries and Mines (DPIM) predicts that the Reung Kiet site could produce about 164,500 tonnes of the metal.
泰国初级工业和矿业部预测，隆科特锂矿场可以生产约16.45万吨锂。
That would be enough to produce at least 1 million EV batteries of 50 kilowatt-hours, said DPIM Director General Aditad Vasinonta.
泰国初级工业和矿业部总干事Aditad Vasinonta表示，这将足以生产至少100万块50千瓦时的电动汽车电池。
The official said mining could begin there in about two years.
这位官员表示，那里可能会在大约两年后开始采矿。
And, Pan Asia's Paul Lock says the mineral resources at Bang I Tum may be 10 to 70 percent larger than Reung Kiet.
泛亚的保罗·洛克表示，Bang I Tum矿场的矿产资源可能比隆科特锂矿场多10%到70%。
Experts do not know how much reachable lithium exists in Thailand.
专家们不知道泰国还有多少可开采的锂。
Major suppliers of the metal include Australia, Argentina, Chile, and China.
锂的主要供应国包括澳大利亚、阿根廷、智利和中国。
Thailand is Southeast Asia's largest automobile producer and exporter.
泰国是东南亚最大的汽车生产国和出口国。
It wants EVs to account for 30 percent of its yearly automobile production by 2030.
该国希望到2030年电动汽车占其汽车年产量的30%。
Narit Therdsteerasukdi is Secretary General of the Thailand Board of Investment.
Narit Therdsteerasukdi是泰国投资委员会秘书长。
He said the government has supported 38 battery production projects, including those for EV use, with total investment at $659.4 million.
他说，泰国政府已经支持了38个电池生产项目，其中包括电动汽车电池项目，总投资为6.594亿美元。
"Our goal is to push Thailand to become the regional hub for battery production, both for EV and for energy storage," he said.
他说：“我们的目标是推动泰国成为电动汽车和储能电池生产的区域中心”。
A regional hub is an important center of activity for a part of the world.
区域中心指的是世界某一地区的重要活动中心。
The Thai government is also pushing for lithium exploration in new areas.
泰国政府也在推动在新地区进行锂勘探。
That includes changing laws to permit private companies to study agricultural lands, Aditad said.
Aditad说，其中包括修改法律，以允许私营公司调查农业用地。
One of the interested companies is Matsa Resources, an Australian miner looking for lithium in Thailand.
对此感兴趣的公司之一是在泰国寻找锂矿的澳大利亚矿商Matsa Resources。
Matsa holds two special permits to look for lithium in Thailand.
Matsa公司持有两份在泰国寻找锂的特别许可证。
And it has over 100 requests waiting, it said in January.
该公司在1月份表示，目前有100多份申请正在等待批准。
"They will be only one of a handful of countries that have got the whole supply chain from mining to production within the same country," said Paul Poli, Matsa's leader.
Matsa公司的领导人保罗·波利说：“它们将只是少数几个在同一个国家拥有从采矿到生产的整个供应链的国家之一”。
The lithium under exploration in Thailand is found within a mineral known as lepidolite.
泰国正在勘探的锂是在一种名为锂云母的矿物中被发现的。
It is more costly to process than the kind of lithium mined in Australia and Chile.
它的加工成本比澳大利亚和智利开采的那种锂要高。
Matsa and Pan Asia said they are in discussions with Chinese companies to process the lepidolite mineral.
Matsa和泛亚表示，他们正在与中国公司讨论加工这种锂云母矿物的方法。
Chinese companies have experience producing lithium from lepidolite in Jiangxi province.
中国企业有从江西省开采的锂云母中提炼锂的经验。
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