{"id":200253,"date":"2024-11-27T05:32:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T11:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/can-lithium-mining-pollute-drinking-water-new-study-reveals-key-insights"},"modified":"2024-11-27T05:32:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T11:32:55","slug":"can-lithium-mining-pollute-drinking-water-new-study-reveals-key-insights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/can-lithium-mining-pollute-drinking-water-new-study-reveals-key-insights","title":{"rendered":"Can Lithium Mining Pollute Drinking Water? New Study Reveals Key Insights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-lithium-mining-pollute-drinking-water-new-study-reveals-key-insights.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A study reveals that while levels of common contaminants are low, other elements are found in high concentrations in waters associated with an abandoned lithium mine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new study suggests that lithium ore and mining waste from a historic lithium mine west of Charlotte, North Carolina, are unlikely to pollute nearby waters with common contaminants like arsenic and lead.<\/p>\n<p>However, high levels of other metals \u2014 namely, lithium, rubidium, and cesium \u2014 do occur in waters associated with the mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study reveals that while levels of common contaminants are low, other elements are found in high concentrations in waters associated with an abandoned lithium mine. A new study suggests that lithium ore and mining waste from a historic lithium mine west of Charlotte, North Carolina, are unlikely to pollute nearby waters with common contaminants [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200253","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}