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It’s a Nevada silver rush for the 21st Century!  Prospectors (in this case Western Lithium) are combing Nevada for the most precious substance in the modern EV age.  The third element in the periodic table, alkali gold, the stuff of battery legends.  Lithium, boys, lithium.

Western Lithium Corp, working in Nevada, is already one of the largest producers of lithium in North America.  This drill is extracting the metal so inherent in EV battery technology from the Kings Valley basin in what many geologists believe may be the world’s largest known lithium deposit.

The company, based in Canada, is exploiting their ownership of an original resource bed drilled by Chevron Resources in the 1980s and sold when the call for lithium was too low to support the project.  In Stage I of the project, Western Lithium has successfully begun extracting lithium from one portion of the basin and is now commencing to exploratory drilling for Stage II.

This stage will produce much more lithium, potentially, than the first drill (which began in 2008).  Stage I contains Indicated Resources of 48.1 million tonnes.  Stage II could potentially tap into several times that.

The potential total extraction for this Nevada site is equivalent to about 15.5 billion kilowatt hours of lithium batteries with today’s technology!

Sources: Green Car Congress, Western Lithium