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Posted on 04/29/2026 1:25:32 PM PDT by Libloather
They’ve hit the mother lode.
We may no longer need to rely on foreign batteries to power our electronics. Geologists have announced that the Appalachian Mountains could be hiding a sprawling multi-billion-dollar cache of lithium that could last the US hundreds of years.
“This research shows that the Appalachians contain enough lithium to help meet the nation’s growing needs,” declared US Geological Survey Director Ned Mamula in a statement.
According to a map by the institution, this East Coast mountain range houses around 2.5 metric tons of this battery precursor, most of which is concentrated in the Carolinas, Maine and New Hampshire. Total value: around $64.4B dollars.
Per Bloomberg, the US imports nearly half of its consumption of lithium, which powers lithium-ion batteries that are used for everything from iPhones to vehicles and even aerospace alloys.
With this recent mineral motherlode, USGS officials estimate that we could supply 1.6 million grid-scale batteries — enough to power 130 million electric vehicles or supply 180 billion laptops for a collective thousands of years of global use.
It could also fuel 500 billion cellphones, the equivalent of 60 devices for every person on Earth.
All told, this haul is enough to replace 328 years of imports at least year’s level, providing “a major contribution to U.S. mineral security, at a time when global lithium demand is rising rapidly,” said Mamula.
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They can buy them all new teeth.
Yeah! These stories never matter.
“Eleventy-gabillion Barrels of oil found under (insert American state/city)”
blah blah.
Still paying 5$ gallon from the Aye-Rabs
Never get Maine or New Hampshire to allow mining at scale.
Woke liberal government will block any drilling or excavating.
I think the NIMBY attitude dominates the entire New England area.
They can buy them all new teeth.
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From Dr Bukks?
Teef for the whole fambly.
https://www.drbukk.com/collections/all
2.5 metric tons isn’t much. I assume the NY Post got their quantity massively wrong.
“2.5 metric tons”
I think someone is missing a million somewhere here. 2.5 metric tons is the weight of a medium SUV.
Ukraine saddened.... the only card they had to play with Trump. That, and it has been estimated that Alaska oil, the good sweet crude, we have only discovered < 25% of it.
Editors have been replaced by spellcheck.
Nonetheless, a very positive find!
Libs can be bought, just wave enough cash under their noses.
Lithium does not supply any power whatsoever. It stores power generated by an outside source.
“Ya load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.”
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Be a nice boon for the carolinas.
It will be very cheap to haul though. Two pickup tuck loads.
It's a long, long way from that to proven reserves. And yeah, it'll take a lot of drilling.
Someone might want to look around Lithia Springs, Georgia.
Except a big chuck of Maine is owned by James D Irving.
Mr Irving already owns one of the largest refineries in North America in Saint Johns, NB.
He also owns hundreds of Irving fuel stations.
He also allowed the electric transmission line from Quebec to run across his land in Maine. This is the same transmission line that the people in NH did not want in their backyard.
I have no idea If this lithium is under Jim Irving’s land. But IF it is he will be okay with mining it.
He is already a billionaire and one of the richest people in Canada. He also owns several sawmills and paper mills.
It is a poorly written way to describe the find....was my first thought too.
There’s “battery powered” vs. “power generation”...it can be the former, not the latter.
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