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How The Troubled Salton Sea Could Become The World’s Largest Lithium Supplier
YouTube ^ | May 4, 2022 | CNBC

Posted on 05/09/2022 10:27:49 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

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To: Hootowl99

What a coinky-dinky, eh? ;^)


41 posted on 05/09/2022 12:55:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: JD_UTDallas
On most of these SWD wells, there is an oil/water separator at the well. The oil then goes into a holding tank (at the well) and the water is pumped back down to the layer where it was extracted from. Once there is enough oil in the holding tank, it is then trucked to the nearest staging area connected to a pipeline.

Here's my question...wouldn't the water also have to go into another holding tank and then be trucked to a factory or processing facility to extract the lithium? Or, would there be a way to extract the lithium at the well?

Please correct me if I am wrong.

42 posted on 05/09/2022 12:58:52 PM PDT by FtrPilot
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To: Conan the Librarian

The Alamo canal (off the Colorado River) burst just west of Yuma and flooded all the way to the Salton Sink which became the Salton Sea.


43 posted on 05/09/2022 1:18:16 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: Thud

YUP; everything from hard rock to dredging, mining in California is deader than a road kill skunk!


44 posted on 05/09/2022 1:49:31 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: dennisw

Did you post to the right article/person...?


45 posted on 05/09/2022 2:02:42 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Regulator

Liberal pretzel logic.


46 posted on 05/09/2022 2:03:21 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Jamestown1630

Old promotional short about Salton City:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvguw1KkBB4
Then and Now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JVrhLg0gs8


I grew up in SoCal in the 50s and the Salton Sea was going to be the resort of the future. Fishing, water skiing, planed communities, not that far from L.A. It was going to be great. I remember my parents getting real estate brochures.

And then it died. Not a sudden death, but slowly as the ‘sea’ became more and more toxic. The fish disappeared, the water began to smell, and what houses that were built were left to decay.

If you fly into San Diego, you’ll likely fly over it. Odd colored lake. “Interesting” people live there now.


47 posted on 05/09/2022 2:18:19 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: SunkenCiv

The last time I was in palm springs I made a point to drive around the salton sea.

I stopped at Jesus Land and slab city

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=slab+city&hps=1&atb=v263-1&iax=images&ia=images

got stopped a border checkpoint like 50 miles from mexico, very strange and possibly illegal ?

looked for some tungsten and other heavy metal

https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/veterans/2015/08/05/storyteller-hiroshima-th-anniversary/31193807/

I wanted to sail it, and I figured that there would be some kind of boat rental, but there are none.

if anyone is in palm desert it is all well worth checking out depending on the time of year.

Some say it smells really bad depending on the time of the year, but when I was there I did not notice anything.


48 posted on 05/09/2022 2:31:17 PM PDT by algore
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To: hanamizu

One of the comments I saw below the videos was that things were dying and the air had begun to smell badly even as promotions were still going on.

I don’t know why people didn’t realize that the ‘sea’ could easily ‘disappear’ just as naturally as it had ‘appeared’.


49 posted on 05/09/2022 2:36:00 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: SunkenCiv

It’s a two-fer:

Just put lithium into the water supply and

1) protests against lithium mining will go away
2) Hollywood will shut down, since all the actors will be cured of their mental disorders

On the downside, Hollywood suicides will be down, as will Lake Meade, as urination will be up. But, heh, might be worth the trade.


50 posted on 05/09/2022 3:44:57 PM PDT by nicollo
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To: mylife

I wondered about that, but didn’t have time at lunch to check what the mineral content was. I do remember going over there 20 or so years ago, and buying some water. They had deep well and shallow well available. They warned that you needed to be careful with the shallow well water because it would have a laxative effect in quantity.


51 posted on 05/09/2022 3:55:08 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35

Same in Lithia Springs in Ashland Oregon. Extracting lithium for ocean water has been tested for decades but never feasible. Maybe the Salton Sea has enough to make it worth while but doubtful. Besides. The environazis will never let cheap clean harvesting of anything on American soil or water. There is an endangered speckled newt that ONLY lives right there.


52 posted on 05/09/2022 5:03:41 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: algore

Slab City... probably would still work if it got a new name, maybe Granite Gravestone. ;^) Nice pics!

Interesting a-bomb connection.


53 posted on 05/09/2022 7:29:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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