The Chilean mine is no outlier to the potential impacts of critical mineral mining. Cobalt mining has led to human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). And fishers in Indonesia have said that local nickel mining and processing have destroyed their fishing grounds and livelihood.
Environmental justice concerns potentially loom here in the U.S., too, where 79 percent of the country's lithium reserves are within 35 miles of Native American reservation lands, ones already damaged from a long history of environmental injustices.
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