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USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas

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280 points antidnan | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 17:05 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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chromatin ◴[22 Oct 24 17:30 UTC] No.41916576[source]▶
Serious question:

Given the mood alerting properties of lithium, are people living here chiller than would be expected (controlling for instance for poverty / SES) ?

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pfdietz ◴[22 Oct 24 17:40 UTC] No.41916687[source]▶
The formation is 7000 feet below the surface, if I understand correctly, so I don't think there would be any communication of its brine with potable groundwater.
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1. mbreese ◴[22 Oct 24 17:51 UTC] No.41916812[source]▶
I would like to think that if there were any interaction between theses putative deposits to the groundwater that we wouldn't have needed an ML model to find these deposits in the first place!