Where are the current lithium deposits? Chile? Is mining creating pollution with heavy metals and so forth?
>>According to Malcolm Bell, advisory board member and head of acquisitions for Nevada Energy Metals, Nevada may have a lot of fault traps outside of Clayton Valley with potential lithium deposits “hiding in plain sight”.
“The lithium business is not a flash in the plan; it is here to stay, and I am looking at it like the start of the oil boom in the U.S. when there were oil rigs and derricks nearly every 50 feet,” industry veteran Bell told Oilprice.com. And Nevada Energy Metals understands that lithium is exactly the mineral that is powering our future.<<
I have heard producing and disposing of these vehicle batteries creates WAY more hazardous waste than the average gas powered vehicle ever would.
China mostly.
Northern Atacama, northeast of Antofagasta.
Not to worry, Chile actually has some very Common Sense environmental rules. 0.05” annual rainfall. Not one insect, animal or human lives where the lithium is. Its an amazing looking place.