r/VaushV • u/Globohomie2000 • Sep 17 '23
Other A MASSIVE lithium deposit was just discovered in the US. This could be AMAZING for the green energy industry!
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/lithium-discovery-in-us-volcano-could-be-biggest-deposit-ever-found/4018032.articleThis could be AMAZING for the green energy and electronics industry, which president Biden has already been promoting. AND since it's directly owned by the US there's gonna be less reason to exploit other countries cough cough Bolivia cough and incentives by future US governments to prop these industries up further for revenue and job creation.
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u/eliminating_coasts Sep 17 '23
An estimated 20 to 40 million tonnes of lithium metal lie within a volcanic crater formed around 16 million years ago. This is notably larger than the lithium deposits found beneath a Bolivian salt flat, previously considered the largest deposit in the world. Mining at the site is, however, contested by Native Americans for whom the area is sacred, and is believed to be where a massacre took place in 1865.
That could get complicated. People really need to start talking with Native Americans about what specific kinds of extraction would not violate their sense of the land's sacredness, without money being considered.
And at the same time, they should also probably get a cut, established separately.
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u/Dexller Sep 17 '23
I’ma be real here, we absolutely have to have this lithium. It would massively reduce our dependence on foreign sources and would be a major win for our green energy sector, since prices internally could be lowered for local production. All efforts should be made to make sure the extraction is clean, efficient, and is non-disruptive as possible and the tribe in question should absolutely be compensated with a percentage cut of the money made, and in all other instances I’d say fuck the US and side with the natives… But holy shit this is far too vital for the security and future of both the country and the world.
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u/Globohomie2000 Sep 17 '23 edited Sep 17 '23
Yeah, I agree. The environmental and economic benefits and the freedom from Russia and OPEC dictators are too great. If I were in charge, I would have the government compensate them accordingly to leave. That might actually be better than what they did historically with tribes too, lol.
Also I would be fine with a businessman or billionaire getting disappropriated if he was hoarding a bunch of resources that could be used to help humanity. So I guess fuck it.
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u/Dexller Sep 17 '23
It’s not going to happen, but I’d want this extraction operation to be entirely run by the US government. I don’t see turning this over to a corporation in the security interests of the US at all, and corpos are going to be far more abusive.
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u/ElithXLithium Sep 17 '23
The first decade of Thacker Pass' production has already been accounted for by GM.
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u/Platinirius Sep 17 '23 edited Sep 17 '23
As a Czech, in Czechia a few years back a large Lithium deposits were found (largest in EU). We are planning now to whose foreign company we should gave it. So they dig it for us, so our own population does not get a single penny from it.