Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found (www.chemistryworld.com)

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[-] realitista@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

I like that we got the whole history of how it got there too.

[-] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pretty interesting, though I'm not sure how I feel about the word "smectite" or the fact that it existed in great quantities at the southern tip of Thacker Pass.

[-] diskmaster23@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago

Would America strip mine a volcano?

[-] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago

The current state of American capitalism is $ > anything. So yeah, I suspect we would.

[-] storksforlegs@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

America would strip mine anything if there was enough money in it.

[-] Senex@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago

They already stripmine their citizens.

[-] EvilColeslaw@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

It's an extinct volcano, so yes.

[-] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

Would 2 and 2 make 4?

[-] megopie@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

the mountain west would make a new volcano to allow them to strip mine it if they could.

[-] tavu@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Of course they would.

[-] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

More bad news for China, if true.

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