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Posted on 4/29/26 at 7:29 am to Ailsa
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Appalachian region of the U.S. contains enough lithium to replace 328yrs of imports
Unfortunately, that lithium is largely held in the form of black market prescription drugs.
Posted on 4/29/26 at 8:42 am to duckblind56
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Nah, don't destroy that area with strip mining. Stick with DLE.
DLE as in solar panels?
Posted on 4/29/26 at 9:02 pm to Ailsa
Direct
Lithium
Extraction
Pump brine out of the ground and extract the lithium. A few big lithium players have been building pilot plants in Arkansas on the Smackover brine field to test out their technology.
Lithium
Extraction
Pump brine out of the ground and extract the lithium. A few big lithium players have been building pilot plants in Arkansas on the Smackover brine field to test out their technology.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 12:28 am to Ailsa
His kind are about to be rich.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 12:42 am to Ailsa
SLI with its Smackover region and DLE has entered the chat.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 1:09 am to DeplorableTerrorizer
Not as much as Greenland. But yes that’s a lot
Posted on 4/30/26 at 4:42 am to Ailsa
It's all about economic cost to mine. Chile is a big deal because it is at the surface. We've been mining lithium in the Appalachians for eons and why Lithium Grease was made in WV.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 6:43 am to trinidadtiger
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Guyana
They also make the best rum in the world and hardly anyone knows about it.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 6:48 am to Ailsa
So Appalachians will be poor no more once they start the mining. Bless their hearts!
Posted on 4/30/26 at 7:16 am to CAD703X
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Wonderful whites of West Virginia fina eat
They'll be the modern day Beverly Hillbillies.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 8:06 am to duckblind56
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Pump brine out of the ground and extract the lithium. A few big lithium players have been building pilot plants in Arkansas on the Smackover brine field to test out their technology.
I know a guy in Oklahoma who is involved in that.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 8:11 am to Ailsa
Member when they had all of those devastating floods and FEMA slow walked any help to the residents? I told y’all that the reason was so that the feds could push people off the land to open it up for mining. Well…whadayaknow!?
Posted on 4/30/26 at 8:17 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
while that graphic is funny and partially true, it is amazing of What america is.
How diverse the landscape is with how small it is. There is so much shite that we have that we havent leveraged yet.
You know the whole microchip/silicon scare, about how Taiwan is the major player in those and if China gets the technology they could put a stranglehold on the entire market?
Look up Spruce Pine, NC. It is the only place in the world where you can get the highest purity quarts to make this pure silicon to manufacture all the microchips. So yes America controls everything made downstream of that quarts.
How diverse the landscape is with how small it is. There is so much shite that we have that we havent leveraged yet.
You know the whole microchip/silicon scare, about how Taiwan is the major player in those and if China gets the technology they could put a stranglehold on the entire market?
Look up Spruce Pine, NC. It is the only place in the world where you can get the highest purity quarts to make this pure silicon to manufacture all the microchips. So yes America controls everything made downstream of that quarts.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 8:20 am to Chingon Ag
quote:meh... i have seen what large scale coal mines can do for communities and its people($$$$$)... And MOST of the time the land revitalized and flatter for more uses.
Screw lithium and the damage it does via mining.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 8:20 am to cadillacattack
The biggest energy companies in the region couldn't get a simple pipeline built, no way they allow mining for lithium.
Duke and Dominion owned it. The irony is Virginians are now bitching about higher energy costs they think are a result of data centers. This pipeline would have help to keep those costs down.
from 2020 - Dominion Cancels Atlantic Pipeline
Duke and Dominion owned it. The irony is Virginians are now bitching about higher energy costs they think are a result of data centers. This pipeline would have help to keep those costs down.
from 2020 - Dominion Cancels Atlantic Pipeline
Posted on 4/30/26 at 8:26 am to Ailsa
Meh, i'd prefere we strip mine the world's lithium, than turn the smokies into an eyesore. That's beautiful country over there.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 8:28 am to CarRamrod
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highest purity quarts
if anyone else gets ahold of some pure gallons we're finished
Posted on 4/30/26 at 9:07 am to Chingon Ag
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Screw lithium and the damage it does via mining.
Just such a retarded take.
Incredibly shortsighted.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 9:15 am to CarRamrod
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Look up Spruce Pine, NC. It is the only place in the world where you can get the highest purity quarts to make this pure silicon to manufacture all the microchips
I had watched a video about that on YouTube. I was amazed! I'd never heard or read anything about it.
This was it...
Amazing..
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