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Pennsylvania is sitting on major untapped lithium ‘white gold mine’ that could generate new billion-dollar industry, government study finds
Daily Mail ^ | 5/27/2024 | Matthew Phelan

Posted on 05/27/2024 7:00:15 PM PDT by caww

Government scientists have shown that they can filter the precious metal from the state's shale gas wastewater: pulling tons of lithium per day, with little left behind.

They concluded that Pennsylvania alone could produce nearly half of the total US demand for lithium — starting in the first year — supplying this key compound that's needed to power everything from smartphones to electric vehicles to solar panels.

A project on this scale could make Pennsylvania a rust-belt Saudi Arabia, ending US dependence on lithium from China, which now controls 90 percent of the market.

People compare it to the Gold Rush, but the Gold Rush was pretty small scale, compared to what all this lithium's looking like,' Donnelly said.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: batteries; chat; electricvehicles; ev; firetraps; gas; lithium; metals; naturalgas; notnews; pennsylvania
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Over 1,200 tons of lithium could be recovered per year from Pennsylvania's natural gas 'fracking' wastewater alone, according to the new research, produced in collaboration by the US National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and the University of Pittsburgh...


1 posted on 05/27/2024 7:00:15 PM PDT by caww
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Bidens EPA will not allow it while Trump’s policy says” “Drill , baby, drill!”

That should turn Pennsylvania Red.


2 posted on 05/27/2024 7:07:38 PM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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Or they could use the excessive lithium to try to treat the mania of gender dysphoria.

*Your results may vary.

3 posted on 05/27/2024 7:09:52 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: caww

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-evidence-mcdermitt-caldera-largest-lithium.html

Winnemucca is gonna be a lithium boomtown!

PA better get with it, NV is already booming with gold and Lithium


4 posted on 05/27/2024 7:11:20 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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Democrats will never let them mine it if China doesn’t want them to.


5 posted on 05/27/2024 7:14:53 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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Okay, send all of those unaccompanied illegal kids to Pennsylvania and put them to work mining lithium. Works overseas, might was well do the same here since they coming whether we like it or not. :)


6 posted on 05/27/2024 7:16:53 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Build the Wall, Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone.)
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China will PAY the Dems not to mine it.


7 posted on 05/27/2024 7:18:37 PM PDT by BipolarBob (it's easier to fool the people than to convince them they've been fooled.)
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All they have to do is threaten. China has so much dirt on Democrat politicians that they can blackmail them into doing anything.


8 posted on 05/27/2024 7:21:23 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

Please ping me with articles of interest.

FReepmail me to be added to the list.

Ironic that much of the Lithium rich areas overlays the Pennsylvania oil fields...
the early 19th century boom for ICE now may once again be in play for another technology.
But I'm holding out for Hydrogen cells.

9 posted on 05/27/2024 7:22:37 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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>> Or they could use the excessive lithium to try to treat the mania of gender dysphoria.

I see what you did there. ROFL!


10 posted on 05/27/2024 7:29:51 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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But will we have enough little black kids to collect it????


11 posted on 05/27/2024 7:35:06 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT.)
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Looks like West Virginia could be the richest state in the nation soon LOL.


12 posted on 05/27/2024 7:36:31 PM PDT by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, Trump supporter, murdered in 2020)
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Michelle Pfeiffer, that white gold...


13 posted on 05/27/2024 7:39:49 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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The marxist/socialists (Democratic Party) will tie this up on lawfare for 100 years. With the help of RINO judges, their success is guaranteed.


14 posted on 05/27/2024 7:45:12 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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The libs have already shut down Thacker Pass Nevada.


15 posted on 05/27/2024 7:46:01 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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Hillary must be kicking herself for missing the chance to sell it.


16 posted on 05/27/2024 7:47:17 PM PDT by ryderann
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They could, but the government will regulate it to death.


17 posted on 05/27/2024 7:59:02 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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With 72 proposed lithium mines across the US, the discovery could help reduce local ecological fallout as America shifts away from “greenhouse gas”-emitting fossil fuels. …
LOL “shifts away from”. No, nobody is going to suddenly start buying battery-powered firetraps en masse. And this is of course not a new discovery.
18 posted on 05/27/2024 8:00:48 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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Democrats will never let them mine it if China doesn’t want them to.

One more reason to elect Trump.

19 posted on 05/27/2024 8:03:00 PM PDT by GOPJ (Deplorables welcome Bronx "clowns" to the family. )
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More like proposed future National Parks if the Rats have anything to do with it.


20 posted on 05/27/2024 8:06:06 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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