Posted on 07/21/2023 9:33:39 AM PDT by DFG
A small, quiet Arkansas town home to just 11,100 people is set to become the epicenter of the US 'white gold' boom.
Magnolia, a blue-collar town in the state's southern region, was once a locus for oil but is on track to become a major producer of lithium, dubbed 'white gold' because of its soft, silvery-white look and the fact it powers most modern tech - from cellphones to laptops and electric cars.
Exxon Mobil is planning to build one of the world’s largest lithium processing facilities near the town, with a capacity to produce 75,000 to 100,000 metric tons of lithium a year, sources say, which would be 15 percent of the world's lithium production.
A small, quiet Arkansas town home to just 11,100 people is set to become the epicenter of the US 'white gold' boom.
Magnolia, a blue-collar town in the state's southern region, was once a locus for oil but is on track to become a major producer of lithium, dubbed 'white gold' because of its soft, silvery-white look and the fact it powers most modern tech - from cellphones to laptops and electric cars.
Exxon Mobil is planning to build one of the world’s largest lithium processing facilities near the town, with a capacity to produce 75,000 to 100,000 metric tons of lithium a year, sources say, which would be 15 percent of the world's lithium production.
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This will end horribly.
Where’s all the fake Libtard environmentalists?!
(Hanging out with the fake libtard peace activists)
THAT can be taken from the ground. Energy producing resources, not so much.
“This will end horribly.”
How?
Some enviro-nazi organization will upend the program in three, two, one.....
Bet on it. Until those clowns fear for their lives.
A lot of Deja vu in your excerpt.
That small town’s “normal life” is about to change radically...
All that money makes such a succulent sound, welcome to the Boom Town.
The same morons that consider past strip mining one of the unforgivable environmental sins of the greedy white man will cheer this on no doubt.
The eco-greens seem to tolerate environmental impact better when it is far far away.
Maybe if this part of Arkansas is not scenic, and the people are poor or black or uneducated enough, it won’t matter to much.
See renewable wood pellet farming in North Carolina. Germany gets to pat itself on the back, and poor Tarheels get forests wrenched out to bare dirt, grinders, noise, trucks, and very few jobs.
Also happening to forests in Romania and Poland but Germany is getting renewable green energy.
Not strip mining
Regulatory and environmental measures will be ignored. Toxic ponds of reaction catalysts will be everywhere.
They might as well rename the town as "Valdez"
I would like to hear what Elon Musk has to say about it? You know, apolitical rocket engineers that know processes back to front and front to back.
China already BRIBED BIDEN to prohibit this type of mining in America.
“Industrial vehicles like forklifts, genie booms, and mobile equipment, will always be lead-acid batteries.”
Performance Winner: Lithium-Ion
Lead-acid has been the traditional power source for forklifts and is still a reliable choice. But if you want better performance, go with lithium-ion batteries.
LITHIUM
GOLF CART
COLLECTION
(11 year warranty)
https://dakotalithium.com/?msclkid=98e057a701a71b6801ba331db97dc374
There are several mines in NM that are filled with Lepidolite, which is an ore. I have seen them personally.
Well the first thing you know ol’ Jed’s a millionaire
EnvironMENTALists suing in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .
“Industrial vehicles like forklifts, genie booms, and mobile equipment, will always be lead-acid batteries.”
Genie E-Drive with ONLY lithium ion batteries
——Lead-acid not available-—————
https://www.genielift.com/en/aerial-lifts/Slab-scissor-lifts/gs3232
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