Lithium 'White Gold Rush' in Nevada Could Desecrate Native Land

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"Lithium is sourced in a number of ways, eg. hard rock mining [in Australia and Portugal] and underground reservoirs [in Argentina, Brazil and Chile], and Nevada in the U.S.," Mohan Yellishetty, a mining and environmental engineering associate professor at Monash University in Australia, told Newsweek.

"Like any mining, the Li extraction will have impacts. One has high CO2 emissions (the Spudumene route produces 3 times more CO2 than the brine route) and the other route (salar brines) has an enormous land and water footprint (approximately 3x water and 7x land requirement) per ton of lithium production," he said.