Buried beneath an ancient volcanic crater on the Nevada Oregon border sits an enormous deposit of lithium rich clay. Scientists now think this quiet landscape may hold enough lithium to influence the global battery market for decades.
A new study argues that McDermitt caldera may host about 20 to 40 million metric tons of lithium, likely the largest deposit yet identified.
Using the recent United States’ average contract price for lithium carbonate, about 37,000 dollars per ton, that estimate comes out to be nearly $1.5 trillion.
This gives me an idea.
There’s I think at least two dollops about guys who did this.
Wasn’t that the basic plot of a Gilligan’s Island episode (except with oil)?
Is it? I haven’t watched all of the Gilligan’s island episodes, I don’t think I have seen more than a couple.
Which episode was it?
There was one where Mr. Howell gives Gilligan some land, then they hear on the radio there is oil there, Howell takes it back, only to find out it was just a buried tanker. Hilarity ensues. That is all I remember. I don’t think I have watched any episodes in about… um, so many years.