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The Thacker Pass lithium mine is a lithium clay mining development project in Humboldt County, Nevada, which is the largest known lithium deposit in the US and one of the largest in the world. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] There has been significant exploration of Thacker Pass since 2007.
Other deposits in the caldera contain ores of antimony, cesium, and lithium [11] [12] (potentially, one of the biggest mines in the world). [13] The Thacker Pass lithium deposit, located within the caldera, is a prospect that in 2017 was said to be the most significant lithium-clay resource in the U.S. [14]
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President Joe Biden's administration has conditionally agreed to loan more than $2 billion to the company building a controversial lithium mine in Nevada with the largest known U.S. deposit of the ...
Rowe said the mine’s approval is “a milestone for the company,” adding that Rhyolite Ridge “is a very special mineral deposit” that is critical to the domestic lithium production.
The biggest producer of lithium in the world is China, which processes most lithium currently. “I can say with absolute confidence there are few deposits in the world as impactful as Rhyolite Ridge,” Ioneer Executive Chairman James Calaway said.
The Valley also contains a playa with a lithium deposit which is "one of the 10 largest in the world and the largest in North America, with salt deposits 2,000 feet thick." [9] NASA has used the flat ground for calibrating satellite geodesy, space-based radar, and height measurements, since the 1990s.
In addition to the lithium and boron deposits, Rhyolite Ridge is home to the Tiehm's buckwheat flower, which is found nowhere else on the planet and was declared an endangered species in 2022.