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I hope it's a bunch. Lithium mining poisons the earth under and around it, and it requires vast areas of drying ponds.

Nope.

It will just wipe out the deer, antelope, chukar, and sagehen and poison the ground there permanently.

So, you like the jet fuel for safari? The pickup to haul your iron to the airport? The iron itself? Finely machined using the best cutting fluids? The finest Missouri lead projectiles? Gas to go hunt chukars? All of that comes from holes in the ground, none apparently in YOUR backyard, luvver.

A big pile of lithium within US borders is a BFD in terms of geostrategic resources. But I'd bet money there will be at least one variety of milkvetch to hang the whole thing on the ESA.

Don’t be a NIMBY. There’s still lots of good places to hunt chuckars in NV. You just gotta know where.


Oh bullshit. Been hearing that since the AK pipeline. Guess where all the Caribou hang out? Right next to the pipeline.

Or, sell it to them.
Hillary will act as agent, she has experience selling our assets to enemies.

Would you work around heavy equipment operated by alkies?

You are too clueless to compare apples and oranges. The pipeline isn't thousands of acres of evaporation ponds and the top layer of the soil scraped off.

I'm a native Nevadan and know about where to hunt. Mining in general is decimating those places. It's a fact. No matter. In 150-200 years it will heal up.

Yeah well guess what, I have lived there myself, worked in the industry, and hunted there too. I actually permitted and did the environmental compliance for Barrick you clueless ass. I also did the reclamation work at these places. I personally oversaw the vegetation population pre and post mining and there’s standards with all of it that have to be met. The only part you are correct about is that during mining, there isn’t wildlife hanging out in the active areas. That’s quite by accident I’m sure.

I’ve met a lot of folks like you through the years. Here you are posting away with with the products of mining, including the lithium in your cell phone. You don’t have the faintest idea where anything came from. Meat comes from the supermarket, right? If you’re a NV native, you’re from Clark county or Reno no doubt. The active footprint of mining in the state is less than 1% of the area within the state. Yet, you would have us believe that is decimating the wildlife? LOL.

I’m feeling generous so will help you with your chukar quest. Go find any number of springs along the foothills in the Great Basin. There you will also find chuckars, muleys, etc. BTW, the problem with sage grouse isn’t mining. It’s predation on their nests by mainly ravens.

It's on the Reservation. That means the indians are going to want a piece of the pie , or oppose it all together.

SupFoo can connect the dots

There are no good places to hunt chukars or Mt Goats. It's all up and down.

I can't come out against mining, too much of what supports civilization comes from mining, but I could feel a lot better about the Thacker Pass discovery if the whole premise of it wasn't based on a false narrative...the need for EV's to save the planet. Looks like sodium ion batteries are destined to make lithium obsolete in a few years anyway.
I am probably one of the few guys on here that has been over Thacker Pass going to and from Kings River...if you do have to trash a piece of real estate for waste rock, I'd say Thacker is as good a place as any. Anyway, the amended reclamation plan is proposing backfilling the pit with the spoils as they go. I think the proposed settling ponds will turn out to be a boon to wildlife in the long term.
If anybody was concerned about the Quinn River Valley or the Kings River Valley staying in a native state, they should have shut down the alfalfa industry long ago. By the way, the Injuns don't own Thacker Pass, it is BLM.

It's not on the res but the Indians call it a sacred site. To them, any place where they don't want whites becomes sacred. Their sacred land is everything between the Pacific and Atlantic and between Canada and Mexico - if they can get a way with it.

The article I read earlier made it sound like a new discovery. Apparently that's not true. Most of the permitting has already been done and construction has started. It's owned (or leased) by Lithium Nevada Corp.
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@flintlock - I will be the first to say mining shouldn’t be universally allowed everywhere. But McDermitt certainly isn’t what one would consider prime real estate! We should, however, be self-sufficient regarding our natural resources just from a strategic standpoint alone and environmentally ready too. Our great leaders, however, have basically made it nearly impossible to get anything done. Trump certainly did a good job of turning up BLM and they were better for a time. This administration though, they would rather have things produced in third-world sheetholes with zero environmental protections than here where we have strong environmental protections and standards. The standards aren’t the problem. It’s the government bureaucrats who sit on things and deny them, not for scientific reasons, but for political purposes. Then there’s the environmental wackos who actually get paid by the government when they sue as a backup. There’s no repercussions either. Your only remedy is through the courts - 9th Circus.

McDermitt is owned by the Mormon Crickets i believe . ( sounds like a baseball franchise)

Tweakers do it with speed!

Thanks for the link. I’m absolutely sure a thorough Bugs and bunnies study was conducted as well as an archaeological review as part of their EIS. As you mention, the tribe hasn’t been properly bought off so are against it.

But her specialty is uranium. What does she know about lithium.

Hmm…

DF

She might not understand lithium but you can be sure she understands money and coverups.

Who, that has worked around heavy equipment, hasn't?







Hillary is a quick study.
Money hastens the process.🤑🤑🤑