The USGS reported a lithium discovery the size of nine times ... A few months later, the U.S. Department of Energy discovered a massive lithium deposit beneath California's Salton Sea, holding ...

The Smackover is already commonly used by energy and ... for increased U.S. production to replace imports” with the new ...

The Department of Energy announced in November 2023 that ... lithium mining in California comes as a recent analysis by the U.S. Geological Survey found that the Smackover Formation in Arkansas ...

This story is part of the Grist series Unearthed: The Mining Issue, which examines the global race to extract critical minerals for the clean energy ... Developed by the U.S. Geological Survey ...

the geological era between 145.5 and 66 million years ago, the sedimentary rocks far underneath East Texas and Louisiana contain significant undiscovered energy resources, the U.S. Geological ...