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USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas

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288 points antidnan | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 17:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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Animats ◴[22 Oct 24 21:33 UTC] No.41918949[source]▶
There's also a big lithium deposit in Nevada, and preparations for mining are underway there.[1] General Motors put in $650 million for guaranteed access to the output of this Thacker Mine.

It's in a caldera in a mountain that I-80 bypassed to go through Winnemuca, Nevada. Nearest town is Mill City, NV, which is listed as a ghost town, despite being next to I-80 and a main line railroad track. The mine site is about 12km from Mill City on a dirt road not tracked by Google Street View.

Google Earth shows signs of development near Mill City. Looks like a trailer park and a truck stop. The road to the mine looks freshly graded. Nothing at the mine site yet.

It's a good place for a mine. There are no neighbors for at least 10km, but within 15km, there's good road and rail access.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thacker_Pass_lithium_mine

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skyfaller ◴[23 Oct 24 03:40 UTC] No.41921563[source]▶
Not everyone agrees that this is a good place for a mine: https://www.protectthackerpass.org/

"to shut down the tar sands, we actually have to shut down the tar sands, not just blow up other mountains elsewhere and hope that leads to the end of the tar sands."

https://maxwilbert.substack.com/p/the-long-shadow-of-the-tar...

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MrBuddyCasino ◴[23 Oct 24 06:31 UTC] No.41922394[source]▶
Not even the moon landing had majority support when it was planned.

Activists think in terms of unambiguous moral purity instead of trade-offs.

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1. simgt ◴[23 Oct 24 09:25 UTC] No.41923337[source]▶
It's because there are people with unambiguous moral purity opposing these projects that we can have a trade-off. Without them, nothing that goes against the unambiguous selfish interests of corporations would be left.