YAHOO - An extensive underground lithium reserve has been discovered beneath California's Salton Sea, according to a report backed by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
The Characterizing the Geothermal Lithium Resource at the Salton Sea report found that the lithium beneath the sea could create more than 375 million electric vehicle (EV) batteries.
“This is one of the world’s largest lithium brine deposits," said Michael McKibben, a geochemistry professor at the University of California, Riverside and one of the report's authors.