More domestic lithium found

[begreen]

The more we look for it, the more we find.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh8183

 

[semipro]

Largest known deposit in the world...and seemingly not in an environmentally sensitive area...sounds hopeful.

 

[bigealta]

Is that the one that NASA calibrates some of their stuff with?

 

[walhondingnashua]

A lot of that in the US and Canada. Great for American economy but...

You may have to pay decent money to American workers so why not just keep getting it from the Congo... (I'm being sarcastic).

 

[blades]

The greenies will toss so many civil suits at it that it may be accessible in 3 lifetimes or more before anything comes of it. By then likely we will have developed large scale manufacturing of alternatives at 1/3 or more less cost wise as well recycle functions, or have gone to completely different methods. Some of which already exist but need to be scaled up. Costs enter the picture to accomplish same.

 

[begreen]

The greenies will toss so many civil suits at it that it may be accessible in 3 lifetimes or more before anything comes of it. By then likely we will have developed large scale manufacturing of alternatives at 1/3 or more less cost wise as well recycle functions, or have gone to completely different methods. Some of which already exist but need to be scaled up. Costs enter the picture to accomplish same.

Some new sources are doing just that. It was considered a waste product for Compass Mining at the Great Salt Lake. Now by just adding another extractor at the end of the process, they can harvest lithium too. And a new company now wants to extract it directly.

New lithium company wants billions of gallons from Great Salt Lake, but says it will put it all back

A proposed lake miner claims it will use no evaporation ponds and deplete no water.

www.sltrib.com