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McDermitt NV/OR. It's a town of 500 that's split by the NV/OR state line. 75% Indians. They've just discovered what might be the world's biggest lithium deposit just west of town in what's called the McDermitt Cauldera. It's an ancient volcano basin, all on BLM land. LINK

So, what will happen? For starters, all the environmentalists will fight tooth and nail to prevent it being mined. They want EV's but don't want us to make batteries for them.
Next, assuming that a mine opens, there will be lots of miners. McDermitt isn't exactly the social center of either NV or OR. It's about as lost as any town in the US. I think there are only 2 or 3 motels. It will soon be home to a bunch of new brothels and casinos, at least on the NV side of town. I can guarantee that the NV side will grow a lot faster than the OR side. There's a similar situation in Wendover NV/UT. The NV side with casinos is a well to do community. The UT side is poverty.

All that's years down the road, though. First there will be years of court battles and government regulations to go through.
Speaking of EVs - you really don't want to drive one out there without a generator trailer. The charging locations are few and far between.

Daughter has jackpot roping friends in Ft McDermitt, they say don't look for any huge growth there, hold onto your real estate venture capital...mine site is only 60 miles from Winnemucca and like a lot of mining operations in Nevada, the company will commute...and McDermitt is 30 miles north of the probable mine entrance nearer Orovada. If you were to buy the gas/grub store in Orovada, then you would be in clover.

Let me guess.

Hunter Biden and Harry Reid own all the private property in a 100 mile radius. Bought it all two years ago on a "hunch".

Jesus man, it's like you have a crystal ball or sumpin.

Not any different than the illegal situation, "Not in my back yard".........

used the restroom at the casino in McDermitt many times. usually dropped a dollar in quarters in the bandit closest to the exit. think i may be ahead a couple dollars.

One thing is for sure.

None of the workers are going to come from the Oregon side.

LOL

You consider Wendover, NV to have any aspect that is "well to do"? WTH? Really?

It's all relative. Wendover is not and never will be Las Vegas.

My grandparents had a farm near Bessemer City, NC. Somewhere in the mid to late 60s a lithium mine was opened on the neighboring property. I remember that our family was visiting my grandparents on the day of the very first blast which began operations. Mining officials came to the house and warned us to stay put until the all clear siren was sounded.

That first blast was something like you’d see in a movie. The ground shook, dust and boulders the size of cars were thrown hundreds of feet into the air. Some of the smaller rocks made it to within a few hundred feet of my grandparents house. I don’t remember the explosion being too loud though. I guess because it was contained so far underground.

In the years after that first blast, Lithium bought out my grandparent’s farm and used it to pile all of the mining rubble. Where we all used to roam and play as kids, the house, barns, pastures, meadows gone… and everything is now acres and acres of land covered in a mountain of rocks, dirt, overgrown with scrub trees, bushes and briars.

My dad's 70 acre family farm was just down stream from my grandparents place, now the lithium mine, and that’s where our family lived. There was the constant sound of heavy trucks running 24 hours a day, dust and the occasional rumbling of a blast. Ever so often our creek would run water that was milky looking and the EPA would come take water samples.

Fast forward to around 1990, Lithium approached my dad about purchasing our property. By that time I was grown, married and had moved away from home. Not sure what deal he worked out but he ended up with a farm and new house just a few miles from my house. The farm where my dad grew up and I grew up is now a huge sediment lake and overgrown vegetation.
I don’t know if it’s related to the mine or not but my mom and 2 sisters all have passed away from cancer.

As far as I can see the lithium mine didn’t improve anything for anyone near the mine. Some of the other adjoining landowners were also bought out or relocated but for the most part no other benefits.

Now, with the “green energy” craze, lithium is pushing for an expansion in the area. Residents are all joining together and trying to fight the expansion. Where it ends up, who knows.

There is nothing and no-one anywhere near this McDermitt deposit who will be bothered.

I am betting that the biden crime family will follow their instructions from China, and ban all mining.

I'm betting any type of activity that squares up in the "+" column will quickly be shut down by the communist in chief and his anti-America handlers. If lithium is in their best interest somehow then it may be allowed, as long as few ordinary Americans benefit that is.

There’s no brothels in Wendover, Jackpot, or McDermott. There won’t be any either. Gotta be 50 miles inside the border for that. Nearest brothels in NE NV are in Wells. Which is just over 50 miles away from ID and UT.

The Lithium will almost certainly never be mined, simply because it is within California. Having dealt with permitting with Region 9 EPA, it’s an absolute nightmare to get anything done. The leftist wack jobs controlling CA will NEVER allow it. They would much rather have this so they can feel good about their ‘green’ selves:

It that area? Wanna bet?

It's not in CA. It's mostly in NV, overlapping into OR. Greenies in OR might try to get that part of it stopped.
From what I can tell from maps, it's located outside of any Indian reservations or wilderness study areas. It's all on plain old BLM land.

Not until a dispensary opens up. Then they might get a couple.

I wonder if the company who gets the contract will conduct drug tests. I'd really hate to work around heavy equipment operated by dopers.

I wonder what rare critters live there that nobody cared about until now....

DOUBLEFUKKK!

Mining once again destroys good places in NV. This is one of my chukar hunting spots.

GD I hate big mining!