The USGS reported a lithium discovery the size of nine times ... A few months later, the U.S. Department of Energy discovered a massive lithium deposit beneath California's Salton Sea, holding ...

The Smackover is already commonly used by energy and ... for increased U.S. production to replace imports” with the new ...

The Department of Energy announced in November 2023 that ... lithium mining in California comes as a recent analysis by the U.S. Geological Survey found that the Smackover Formation in Arkansas ...

This story is part of the Grist series Unearthed: The Mining Issue, which examines the global race to extract critical minerals for the clean energy ... Developed by the U.S. Geological Survey ...

associate director for energy and mineral resources at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), who did not participate in the research, said in the statement. "This map is tantalizing because it shows ...