Located in the 28-mile-long and 22-mile-wide McDermitt Caldera, the discovery of the deposit will be a massive boost to the United States' lithium reserves, which have been...
Not many people live out there. Not many macro-scale animals, either. Very, very few plants. Southeast Oregon/Northwest Nevada is very, very desolate so mining isn’t going to be too awful in terms of ecological impacts that we pay attention to.
It’s in the watershed of a major tributary to the snake river. This isn’t a matter of what goes on a few miles from the dig site. I grew up along a creek with mine runoff in it. After a big enough rainstorm it wasn’t uncommon to see a bunch of dead fish and frogs and such. Yellow foam on the water all the time. There will be a cost to this.
Not many people live out there. Not many macro-scale animals, either. Very, very few plants. Southeast Oregon/Northwest Nevada is very, very desolate so mining isn’t going to be too awful in terms of ecological impacts that we pay attention to.
It’s in the watershed of a major tributary to the snake river. This isn’t a matter of what goes on a few miles from the dig site. I grew up along a creek with mine runoff in it. After a big enough rainstorm it wasn’t uncommon to see a bunch of dead fish and frogs and such. Yellow foam on the water all the time. There will be a cost to this.
Oh for sure, but it’s not going to get reported on because the point source is very far away from metropolitan and farming areas.