Lithium? Saudi Arabia of Lithium potentially located in California

[Phenomenally Frantastic]

The Salton Sea Geothermal Field In California — Quantifying California’s Lithium Valley: Can It Power Our EV Revolution?​

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U.S. Department of Energy
Published
14 hours ago‌
Berkeley Lab Leading Investigation to Better Understand the Salton Sea’s Geothermal Lithium Resources
The Salton Sea geothermal field in California potentially holds enough lithium to meet all of America’s domestic battery needs, with even enough left over to export some of it. But how much of that lithium can be extracted in a sustainable and environmentally friendly way? And how long will the resource last? These are just a few of the questions that researchers hope to answer in a new project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

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UC Riverside geochemist Michael McKibben, who has been studying the Salton Sea geothermal field since the 1970s, agrees with the potential.

“If you do a back-of-the-envelope calculation, you can convince yourself there’s somewhere between 1 and 6 million metric tons of lithium in that field,” he said. “That would be the largest brine source of lithium in the world, bigger than any individual South American salar deposit. So, it’s a big number, and it means the potential is there for — again, back-of-the-envelope calculations — something like 50 to 100 years’ worth of lithium production.”

The Salton Sea Geothermal Field In California — Quantifying California's Lithium Valley: Can It Power Our EV Revolution?

The Salton Sea Geothermal Field in California: Quantifying California’s Lithium Valley: Can It Power Our EV Revolution?

cleantechnica.com

 

[Joes Place]

Not just "located"

It comes up in the water they already use for geothermal energy already.
Just need to develop a method to extract it before returning the water underground.