No. Lithium brines are far greater in Canada. But the recovery of Lithium from brines is made under a new technology that is far faster and efficient than gravity based sediment accumulation.
Your link demonstrates what the Chinese are doing around the globe. They are buying up as many mining rights and leases as they can find in order to corner targeted markets. Their goal is to control strategic mineral sources.
Elon Musk is aware of the tech I am hinting at. He wants it and needs it.
Rare earths’ potential "......[Guyana's] local bauxite industry has excavated much more red earth to get at our bauxite than Jamaica and we hope that tests are being conducted to ascertain whether they may also contain rare earth metals in sufficient concentration to justify extraction.
With some 95 per cent of the production of all rare-earth minerals, China remains the dominant player globally. This decisive natural resources advantage has obviously prompted concerns in the U.S., Japan and the EU. A 2011 report issued by the U.S. Geological Survey on “China’s Rare-Earth Industry” outlines the basic facts succinctly. China’s lead in the production of rare-earth minerals has accelerated over the past two decades. In 1990, China accounted for only 27 per cent of such minerals. In 2009, world production was 132,000 metric tonnes; China produced 129,000 of those tonnes.
The Chinese government sets annual quotas, and policy regulating production is tightly controlled: “In 1990, the Chinese government declared rare earths to be a protected and strategic mineral. As a consequence, foreign investors are prohibited from mining rare earths and are restricted from participating in rare-earth smelting and separation projects except in joint ventures with Chinese firms.” Recent patterns suggest that China will slow the export of such materials to the world: “Owing to the increase in domestic demand, the government has gradually reduced the export quota during the past several years.” In 2006, China allowed 47 domestic rare-earth producers and traders and 12 Sino-foreign rare-earth producers to export. Controls have since tightened annually; by 2011, only 22 domestic rare-earth producers and traders and nine Sino-foreign rare-earth producers were authorised....."
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China is propping up Venezuela's failing socialist experiment ala USSR-Cuba model.
".......Venezuelan oil sales to the U.S. are approaching 28-year lows as the country turns to China amid a shale boom that’s flooding U.S. refineries. Now a Canada-U.S. pipeline threatens to further curb its Gulf of Mexico access.
Venezuelan exports of crude and petroleum products to the U.S. averaged 792,000 barrels a day in the first 11 months of 2013, which would be the lowest annual rate since 1985, according to data published yesterday on the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s website.
State-run Petroleos de Venezuela SA, which oversees the world’s largest oil reserves, is sending hundreds of thousands of barrels a day to China to pay back government loans. At the same time, refiners along the U.S. Gulf Coast are sourcing more domestic supply as a surge in drilling shale rock sends output to the highest in a quarter-century. A proposed pipeline to transport Canadian crude from oil sands in Alberta to U.S. refining centers could further restrict Venezuela’s access to profitable export markets, according to Tissot Associates........." Source