Oh good, more earth to pillage.

Abundance of critical minerals and lack of democracy. Very dangerous combination, deploy military democracy enforcement!

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.

Why is it never in MY yard???

How much you wanna bet that Trump will somehow cause the entire deposit to catch fire?

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.

Trump: "So the oil is under the lithium? How does this work?"

Malheur County, Oregon

Sounds like america could use some freedom

Good, the children yearn for the lithium mines. /s

Maybe I should re-train from computer programmer to lithium miner?

Has anyone done the ‘US invades itself’ joke yet?

wow MONEY and VALUE for STONES for SOMEONE upstream from the LABOR

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.

Dibs

Sounds like it's time to bring the U.S some Freedom! 😎🪖🕊️

Here's the study in Minerals. I'll caution that it's an MDPI journal, but it's better than Earth.com's content mill dogshit.

BEVs and energy storage needs to move on to safer battery systems. Lithium batteries have killed a lot of people already.

The Oregon Chapter of the Sierra Club indicates they support cleaner energy but believe drilling must not come at the expense of fragile habitats.

Foreign lithium isn't magic, zero-footprint lithium. We are a major consumer of lithium, and will probably increase if we're going to move to BEVs. If we're going to consume it, it only seems fair to the rest of the world to have some of the footprint in our own territory.

The federal government invades that state for "peace and freedom"

Time for the US military to enter and bring them democracy. Wait…

Who is going to invade USA this time ?

Oil-backed GOP will make sure it doesn't get developed until next century. "Buy oil instead you losers!"