{"id":171733,"date":"2023-09-10T13:22:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T18:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/lithium-discovery-in-us-volcano-could-be-biggest-deposit-ever-found"},"modified":"2023-09-10T13:22:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T18:22:27","slug":"lithium-discovery-in-us-volcano-could-be-biggest-deposit-ever-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/lithium-discovery-in-us-volcano-could-be-biggest-deposit-ever-found","title":{"rendered":"Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lithium-discovery-in-us-volcano-could-be-biggest-deposit-ever-found.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A world-beating deposit of <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chemistryworld.com\/3005835.article\" rel=\"intextlink_6\">lithium<\/a> along the Nevada\u2013Oregon border could meet surging demand for this metal, according to a new analysis.<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 20 to 40 million tonnes of lithium metal lie within a volcanic crater formed around 16 million years ago. This is notably larger than the lithium deposits found beneath a Bolivian salt flat, previously considered the largest deposit in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018If you believe their back-of-the-envelope estimation, this is a very, very significant deposit of lithium,\u2019 says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kuleuven.be\/wieiswie\/en\/person\/00143067\">Anouk Borst<\/a>, a geologist at KU Leuven University and the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium. \u2018It could change the dynamics of lithium globally, in terms of price, security of supply and geopolitics.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A world-beating deposit of lithium along the Nevada\u2013Oregon border could meet surging demand for this metal, according to a new analysis. An estimated 20 to 40 million tonnes of lithium metal lie within a volcanic crater formed around 16 million years ago. This is notably larger than the lithium deposits found beneath a Bolivian salt [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}