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One Of Largest exploitable lithium deposit in the world discovered in California.
Posted on 1/29/24 at 12:38 pm
Posted on 1/29/24 at 12:38 pm
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The U.S Department of Energy confirmed its discovery of a 3,400-kiloton reserve of lithium in California's Salton Sea, making it one of the largest exploitable lithium deposits in the world
California might be the blessed Geographical place on this planet in history
Currently, the United States is almost entirely dependent on foreign countries for all lithium extraction, manufacturing, and production. The largest exploitable lithium reserves are in South America’s Lithium Triangle, which comprises Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. While Chile has been a productive ally of the United States, Bolivia and Argentina have faced enormous economic, political, and geopolitical barriers to production.
Argentina’s lithium sector is typically marred in scandal and bureaucratic dysfunction. At the same time, Bolivia’s limited technological capacity, complex history and geography, and disruptive politics have made the nation unable to extract its lithium, instead relying on Chinese and Russian state-owned companies.
Heather Exner-Pirot, the director of the Energy, Natural Resources, and Environment Program at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, remarked on the insecurity of Latin American production, saying, “For Latin American producers, the booms and busts of the mining sector will continue to challenge economies and budgets, even as we enter a commodity upswing.” The United States has the opportunity to cut out the middleman and so ensure its own supply within a volatile market.
For now, the United States continues to rely on the rest of the world for its lithium. After extraction, most of the world’s raw lithium is then transported to China, which has over half of the world’s lithium refining capacity. While the United States has talked a big game about boosting domestic critical mineral production, it has increased its imports of lithium products from China, including lithium batteries used in electric vehicles and specialized electronics.
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There is essential political momentum for the United States to nearshore its critical mineral supply and decrease its reliance on China, Russia, and other competitors. Prominent politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, including presidents Joe Biden and Donald Trump, have explicitly described the need for the United States to become less dependent on China while building America’s critical mineral and manufacturing capacity.
In November last year, the chairs of both the Senate Intelligence and Energy committees called upon the Department of Energy to “take steps to boost U.S. battery manufacturing and next-generation battery research, citing China’s dominance and export controls,” as reported by Reuters. The proposal’s political capital should not go to waste.
Exner-Pirot, an expert on critical mineral policy, argued that the discoveries are “good news for the United States’ energy transition and security goals.” She added that the United States must ensure that it can compete with other cheaper, more established producers if it wants to use these discoveries for export. However, the discoveries will provide battery manufacturers with new options in the global market.
Promoting American-made lithium and lithium products would achieve both. The IRA’s Section 45c(6) explicitly provides the U.S. with the ability to invest public funds into lithium projects. It should be used to back up the exploitation of these two lithium deposits and develop the technology and infrastructure necessary to do so.
With an American lithium base, the United States can control its lithium and battery supply, ensuring that no foreign country like China or Russia can ever turn off the tap. America’s adversaries have shown time and again their willingness to use economic and energy dependence as a weapon to leverage their interests, even going so far as turning off critical energy supply during a period of war as a show of force to its adversaries. This should be an unacceptable bargain for the United States, and exploiting lithium reserves at home would solve this problem.
The American lithium project would also help revive dying American manufacturing, most of which has left the United States for economies offering cheaper costs, lower taxes, and fewer regulations for manufacturers. Doing so would be a massive political win for those ambitious enough to pursue it while boosting domestic economic activity ahead of a predicted recession. Local communities and towns scattered across the southwestern desert could benefit directly from the boundless economic opportunity created.
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Posted on 1/29/24 at 12:43 pm to nycguy
dont let Standard Lithium near it. it will never get exploited
Posted on 1/29/24 at 12:44 pm to nycguy
It’ll probably be sold to the Chinese within a decade.
Posted on 1/29/24 at 12:45 pm to LarryCLE
China probably already owns it.
Posted on 1/29/24 at 12:45 pm to nycguy
I listen to their channel on XM.
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Posted on 1/29/24 at 12:45 pm to nycguy
I hear they’re gonna start calling it libthium since only libs use it
Posted on 1/29/24 at 12:49 pm to el Gaucho
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I hear they’re gonna start calling it libthium since only libs use it
Need some Bawthium... Would pay Three Fiddy
Posted on 1/29/24 at 12:51 pm to nycguy
If one were to mine all the lithium in the site, it would provide enough mental health drugs to supply the state for decades.
Posted on 1/29/24 at 12:51 pm to Honest Tune
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China probably already owns it.
Then you rake it back through Eminent Domain or some other national security mumbo jumbo.
No big deal.
Posted on 1/29/24 at 12:53 pm to nycguy
So are we just going to put those poor kids in China and Africa out of work? They are already only making pennies a day.
Posted on 1/29/24 at 12:55 pm to jamiegla1
There is a lithium summit in Ar-Kansas in 2 weeks. Standard Lithium is hosting group tours of their Li2CO3 processing plant prior to the summit. You in?
Posted on 1/29/24 at 12:55 pm to OysterPoBoy
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So are we just going to put those poor kids in China and Africa out of work? They are already only making pennies a day.
Sounds like Sally Struthers can feed them then.
Posted on 1/29/24 at 12:56 pm to nycguy
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One Of Largest exploitable lithium deposit in the world discovered in California.
Can you imagine the ridiculous amounts of red tape, fee's and taxes California is going to require for whoever goes after this. Or they'll sell the land to China.
ETA: I am really hoping they mine the frick out of this area, and trigger a major earthquake that allows California to break off into the pacific ocean.
This post was edited on 1/29/24 at 1:00 pm
Posted on 1/29/24 at 12:56 pm to nycguy
I would seriously doubt that California is going to allow for it to be mined
Posted on 1/29/24 at 12:57 pm to Fun Bunch
California is deep in debt. They'll allow it.
Posted on 1/29/24 at 12:59 pm to nycguy
California will keep FedGov tied up with lawfare to prevent mining.
Posted on 1/29/24 at 12:59 pm to Crusty
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California is deep in debt. They'll allow it.
Its never stopped them before
Posted on 1/29/24 at 1:04 pm to DesScorp
Going bankrupt is a feature not a bug.
The Screeching harpies in California will not let this happen under any large scale
The Screeching harpies in California will not let this happen under any large scale
Posted on 1/29/24 at 1:04 pm to nycguy
Not conflict lithium, Californians do not want
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