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Slab City reaches its boiling point

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Re: Slab City reaches its boiling point

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> The California Energy Commission estimates the sea [Salton Sea] might produce 600k metric tons of lithium carbonate per year.

> The land under the lake is a patchwork of ownership spread across three primary entities: the federal government – mostly the Bureau of Reclamation and the Bureau of Land Management, the Imperial Irrigation District (IID), and the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians.

Should be interesting over the next 10-20 years as battery production increases and efforts are made to secure reliable sources of lithium.

Hopefully, this results in an actual remediation of one of California's worst environmental disasters and not a repeat of the environmental problems caused by uranium mining on Navajo land in northeast AZ and northwest NM during the Cold War.

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