<story><title>Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found</title><url>https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/lithium-discovery-in-us-volcano-could-be-biggest-deposit-ever-found/4018032.article</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fallingknife</author><text>I refuse to call these people &amp;quot;environmentalists&amp;quot; until they provide a list of places they are ok with mining.  What they are is just glorified NIMBYs who knee jerk oppose everything.</text></item><item><author>davidw</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve actually driven through the &amp;quot;town&amp;quot; of McDermitt, on the border. It is in the middle of f&amp;#x27;ing nowhere. It&amp;#x27;s not terribly far from one of the original &amp;quot;McFarthest spots&amp;quot; ( &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.datapointed.net&amp;#x2F;2010&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;distance-to-nearest-mcdonalds-sept-2010&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.datapointed.net&amp;#x2F;2010&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;distance-to-nearest-mcdon...&lt;/a&gt; ).&lt;p&gt;Some environmentalists and local native Americans aren&amp;#x27;t terribly happy about the idea: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;apnews.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;nevada-lithium-mine-court-appeal-15bd07e0ec03230d81349ff172c790dd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;apnews.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;nevada-lithium-mine-court-appeal-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s actually a pretty interesting bit of country to see, because it&amp;#x27;s rare for most of us to experience places that remote. A few years back, when visiting Steens Mountain (highly recommended) we drove the paved road from Frenchglen to the Alvord desert. We saw I think 2 other cars in an hour.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidw</author><text>Lithium is pretty important in terms of electrifying our economy, which is important for the global environment and climate change - and it&amp;#x27;s got to come from somewhere.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also true that mines have a huge track record of getting in, digging stuff up, making money, and then leaving the mess for someone else to clean up.&lt;p&gt;If you look at the satellite map of the area, you see the former Cordero mercury mine: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;maps&amp;#x2F;@41.9221322,-117.8162339,7151m&amp;#x2F;data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;maps&amp;#x2F;@41.9221322,-117.8162339,7151m&amp;#x2F;d...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a whole report on it here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;response.epa.gov&amp;#x2F;site&amp;#x2F;site_profile.aspx?site_id=7029&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;response.epa.gov&amp;#x2F;site&amp;#x2F;site_profile.aspx?site_id=7029&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The EPA Site Assessment program conducted a Site Inspection in 1988 which recommended no further action. Upon request from the Fort McDermitt Pauite Shoshone Tribe, EPA Emergency Response conducted an additional site visit in November 2009. At that time, EPA was notified of the possibility that mine waste had been used as fill at locations within the town of McDermitt and on the Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshone Reservation.&lt;p&gt;In other words, they tried to get out of doing any cleanup. Then they found that &amp;quot;well, actually...&amp;quot; there was some cleanup needed.&lt;p&gt;So... it&amp;#x27;s probably still worth doing because of climate change, but it&amp;#x27;d sure be nice to ensure it&amp;#x27;s done right, and they do right by the people who have always lived there.
I imagine the local tribes are also pretty wary of getting screwed, because that is something that has been very much par for the course throughout US history.</text></comment>
<story><title>Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found</title><url>https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/lithium-discovery-in-us-volcano-could-be-biggest-deposit-ever-found/4018032.article</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fallingknife</author><text>I refuse to call these people &amp;quot;environmentalists&amp;quot; until they provide a list of places they are ok with mining.  What they are is just glorified NIMBYs who knee jerk oppose everything.</text></item><item><author>davidw</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve actually driven through the &amp;quot;town&amp;quot; of McDermitt, on the border. It is in the middle of f&amp;#x27;ing nowhere. It&amp;#x27;s not terribly far from one of the original &amp;quot;McFarthest spots&amp;quot; ( &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.datapointed.net&amp;#x2F;2010&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;distance-to-nearest-mcdonalds-sept-2010&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.datapointed.net&amp;#x2F;2010&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;distance-to-nearest-mcdon...&lt;/a&gt; ).&lt;p&gt;Some environmentalists and local native Americans aren&amp;#x27;t terribly happy about the idea: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;apnews.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;nevada-lithium-mine-court-appeal-15bd07e0ec03230d81349ff172c790dd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;apnews.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;nevada-lithium-mine-court-appeal-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s actually a pretty interesting bit of country to see, because it&amp;#x27;s rare for most of us to experience places that remote. A few years back, when visiting Steens Mountain (highly recommended) we drove the paved road from Frenchglen to the Alvord desert. We saw I think 2 other cars in an hour.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>midasuni</author><text>NIMBYS say that things should be built&amp;#x2F;mined, just not near them.</text></comment>