How much you wanna bet that Trump will somehow cause the entire deposit to catch fire?
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Abundance of critical minerals and lack of democracy. Very dangerous combination, deploy military democracy enforcement!
Malheur County, Oregon
Oh, oh god, oh fuck shit
Beautiful part of the world
Before the mines
thanks
Thank you
wow MONEY and VALUE for STONES for SOMEONE upstream from the LABOR
It's like discovering another Elon Musk!
RARE EARTH METALS ARE NOT RARE!
Lithium is the 25th most abundant element in Earth's crust!
we see these head lines all the time because it is everywhere, the problem has never been finding it, it's been refining it, and china has a Monopoly on the refining techniques and refuses to do business with anyone who tries to adopt the technology and restricts travel of the people with the knowledge to do so.
Lithium is literally named after stone. No one ever claimed it is rare.
When an X deposit is found, it means that a place has been found where an unusual concentration of a material in an easy/cheap-to-extract form has been found.
There are thousands of tons of gold in the ocean water. But no one would call the ocean a gold deposit. Because it would require a ton of effort/money to extract a tiny amount of gold from the ocean.
Lithium isn't a rare earth
Really bizarre to write or post an article saying this deposit was 'discovered'. This is decade old news. I saw the headline and thought 'oh nice that's like a whole other Thacker Pass' but it literally is just Thacker Pass.
Somebody needs to figure out a way to prevent people from upvoting headlines of articles they haven't read because as far as I can tell there is absolutely no reason to post or upvote this.
Lithium will run out lol. Any time now.
Good, the children yearn for the lithium mines. /s
Maybe I should re-train from computer programmer to lithium miner?
I don't think the people in power care for those sort of miners
The current ones definitely do.
They're saying they like minors
I had just woken up, I'll leave it.
That site is unreadable on mobile.
Seems fine to me
lucky you. Nothing but ads for me.
That is only by not using firefox and ublock.
I find this perspective funny nowadays, and I want more people to question it, really question it. It's valued at over $1.5 trillion? No, it's worth nothing if it just sits there doing nothing. If you worded it as "Could be worth..." then I'd give it a pass. But don't let yourself be fooled, that lithium has absolutely no real value if it's not mined and put towards something that someone can use to improve their quality of life.
technically, it enhances the value of the land it's under. as in if you own that land, and someone wants to buy it for mineral extraction, the value got whole lot higher knowing there is lithium there.
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Oh good, more earth to pillage.
Brighter note, to date is still the best way to make batteries, we need it to build storage capabilities for a grid based on renewable energy.
Unfortunately we'll probably end up using it for disposable vapes instead
That Donut Labs weight test will come any day now.
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Lithium isn't quite like gold. It is not rare at all. The news isn't that it is there, the news is that someone has found a place where it is relatively easy to dig, and lots of it.
In only a few years, most batteries will be made without lithium anyway.
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Has anyone done the ‘US invades itself’ joke yet?
Jan 6 2
The Republican party, I guess.
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