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

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.

Would you work around heavy equipment operated by alkies?

One thing is for sure.

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

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:

Tweakers do it with speed!

The Australians made us blow into a breathalyzer every morning during the safety meeting.

It's a good thing the geologists wasn't running any heavy equipment.

This news was a surprise.... Top two pics in the caldera, others are possibly there or possibly nearby. I'm all for the lithium, we need it. Worked from Orvada for a few months back in the day. Nearby another time. There's better than average sagelands in that country. Oldschool rock blinds next to bighorn trails and sage grouse lek sites. Amply-watered rangeland, productive for livestock and wildlife bliss. Not juniperized. Hmmm. Time flys.

A list of brothels shows a number of them within 50 miles of a state line, especially the CA line. What I read said the counties decide if they want them or not.

McD had a red light on above the bar occasionally in '02. Wannafucca had a few. Hell, I think Denial offered up a thick one too, back in the late '90s. But I surely ain't gonna Goggle it! LOL

Just "a" thick one?

As in only the one???