Abundance of critical minerals and lack of democracy. Very dangerous combination, deploy military democracy enforcement!
this post was submitted on 11 May 2026
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How much you wanna bet that Trump will somehow cause the entire deposit to catch fire?
Malheur County, Oregon
Oh, oh god, oh fuck shit
Beautiful part of the world
Before the mines
thanks
Thank you
wow MONEY and VALUE for STONES for SOMEONE upstream from the LABOR
Really bizarre to write or post an article saying this deposit was 'discovered'. This is decade old news. I saw the headline and thought 'oh nice that's like a whole other Thacker Pass' but it literally is just Thacker Pass.
Somebody needs to figure out a way to prevent people from upvoting headlines of articles they haven't read because as far as I can tell there is absolutely no reason to post or upvote this.
but it literally is just Thacker Pass.
This isn't Thacker Pass.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thacker_Pass_lithium_mine
The Thacker Pass lithium mine is a lithium clay mining development project in Humboldt County, Nevada
The location being discussed:
McDermitt Caldera in Oregon
It looks like there was some discussion that there might be lithium there a bit back, like in 2023, but this is not decade-old news.
Oh good, more earth to pillage.
Brighter note, to date is still the best way to make batteries, we need it to build storage capabilities for a grid based on renewable energy.
Unfortunately we'll probably end up using it for disposable vapes instead
That Donut Labs weight test will come any day now.
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Good, the children yearn for the lithium mines. /s
Maybe I should re-train from computer programmer to lithium miner?
RARE EARTH METALS ARE NOT RARE!
Lithium is the 25th most abundant element in Earth's crust!
we see these head lines all the time because it is everywhere, the problem has never been finding it, it's been refining it, and china has a Monopoly on the refining techniques and refuses to do business with anyone who tries to adopt the technology and restricts travel of the people with the knowledge to do so.
Lithium is literally named after stone. No one ever claimed it is rare.
When an X deposit is found, it means that a place has been found where an unusual concentration of a material in an easy/cheap-to-extract form has been found.
There are thousands of tons of gold in the ocean water. But no one would call the ocean a gold deposit. Because it would require a ton of effort/money to extract a tiny amount of gold from the ocean.
Lithium isn't a rare earth
Lithium isn't quite like gold. It is not rare at all. The news isn't that it is there, the news is that someone has found a place where it is relatively easy to dig, and lots of it.
In only a few years, most batteries will be made without lithium anyway.
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Trump: "So the oil is under the lithium? How does this work?"
It's more like his cronies will claim it's under federal jurisdiction then sell all rights to one of trump's sons for a button.
Has anyone done the ‘US invades itself’ joke yet?
The Republican party, I guess.
Jan 6 2
bet it's inside a national park that the GOP just exposed through government rollbacks.
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