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Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found(www.chemistryworld.com)

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realitista@lemm.ee
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I like that we got the whole history of how it got there too.

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CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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Pretty interesting, though I’m not sure how I feel about the word “smectite” or the fact that it existed in great quantities at the southern tip of Thacker Pass.

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diskmaster23@lemmy.one
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Would America strip mine a volcano?

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MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org
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The current state of American capitalism is $ > anything. So yeah, I suspect we would.

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Storksforlegs@beehaw.org
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America would strip mine anything if there was enough money in it.

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Senex@reddthat.com
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They already stripmine their citizens.

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EvilColeslaw@beehaw.org
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It’s an extinct volcano, so yes.

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megopie@beehaw.org
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the mountain west would make a new volcano to allow them to strip mine it if they could.

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pimento64@sopuli.xyz
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Would 2 and 2 make 4?

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Uniquitous@lemmy.one
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More bad news for China, if true.

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