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An almost inexhaustible reserve of lithium discovered in Canada

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  • M mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca

    what a godawful website

    thanks for the blocklist addition

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    uncouple9831@lemmy.zip
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    Looks fine on my browser

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    • A antonamo

      Wouldn’t wonder if the US discovers tomorrow that Canada is run by a drug cartel

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      uncouple9831@lemmy.zip
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      The US is run by a pedophile ring, so other countries being run by drug cartels isn’t that insane. Big Maple is everywhere.

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      • W wamgams@lemmy.ca

        Finally, good news for people with bipolar!

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        Lemminary
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        Hooray!.. Fuck!

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        • M mrdown@lemmy.world

          Don’t tell trump

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          Lemminary
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          He’s already sniffin’. He can smell it with his greed.

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          • circav@lemmy.caC circav@lemmy.ca

            We know and that’s why we’re getting a citizen army of 300,000 and we’ll party like it’s 1812 part two electric boogaloo.

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            Lemminary
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            #61

            And throw tea coffee barrels into the sea. That’ll show them!

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            • C canadaplus@lemmy.sdf.org

              It’s one of the most abundant elements out there

              I mean, it’s not. Either in the crust or the universe - stellar nucleosynthesis skips straight to carbon.

              Your point still stands, though, since abundance is only one of the factors that goes into how easy something is to recover.

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              notmyoldredditname@lemmy.world
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              #62

              It’s 31st in the crust, there’s more than Lead.

              Then it’s all over the world in other areas in higher concentrations like in brines (the easiest way for us to get it) or clays, and there’s over 200 billion tons of it in the ocean. Granted the ocean stuff would take some figuring out how to get, but it’s a ridiculous amount.

              Whenever we go looking for it, we keep finding vast reserves of it.

              Such as this just this month: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-5-trillion-lithium-deposit-114805186.html?guccounter=1

              Edit: for the sea water stuff, capturing it as a side product of desalination or a next step in desalination might be a starting way to begin extracting it without massively increasing costs as some of the costs will already be part of desalination, which could help bring desalination costs down via another revenue stream.

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              • gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zoneG gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone

                Why not just do uBlock instead of individual blocklists?

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                mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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                I also don’t want to even go to sites that disrespect their users like this

                I don’t want to give them any traffic at all

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                • U uncouple9831@lemmy.zip

                  Looks fine on my browser

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                  mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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                  yeah it looks fine once I turned ad blocking back on

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                  • B breadoven@lemmy.world

                    Not backing up the site, but are you running an Adblock? I had no ads when I opened it.

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                    mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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                    I still had ad block off when I opened it initially

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                    • ikidd@lemmy.worldI ikidd@lemmy.world

                      And we’ll just keep shipping it out of the country for pennies for other countries to make value added products.

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                      no_eponym@lemmy.ca
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                      You want some of the impacts of making those value added products in your back yard?

                      A key reason why Canada ships its oil, lumber, and minerals elsewhere for processing is because there is a human cost to processing these things that moat people don’t want to pay.

                      Also, where clean processing is possible it makes processed materials cost-prohibitive when you can just buy the stuff from jurisdictions where health and environmental laws are lax or non-existent and you can process however you like.

                      Well, tax the dirty processors and eliminate them from the supply chain, you might suggest! That’s not easier either, see eliminating forced labour from the supply chain as an example.

                      I’m not saying nothing should or could be done about Canada’s extraction-only economy, just that it isn’t as easy it may appear at first glance.

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                        AI-powered satellites point to a massive lithium resource at a Canadian project

                        Satellite-linked AI analysis suggests Quebec’s Cisco lithium project could contain about 329 million metric tons of ore, helping guide new drill targets within days.

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                        liuther9@lemmy.world
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                        People of canada should get dividents from profit

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                        • no_eponym@lemmy.caN no_eponym@lemmy.ca

                          You want some of the impacts of making those value added products in your back yard?

                          A key reason why Canada ships its oil, lumber, and minerals elsewhere for processing is because there is a human cost to processing these things that moat people don’t want to pay.

                          Also, where clean processing is possible it makes processed materials cost-prohibitive when you can just buy the stuff from jurisdictions where health and environmental laws are lax or non-existent and you can process however you like.

                          Well, tax the dirty processors and eliminate them from the supply chain, you might suggest! That’s not easier either, see eliminating forced labour from the supply chain as an example.

                          I’m not saying nothing should or could be done about Canada’s extraction-only economy, just that it isn’t as easy it may appear at first glance.

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                          Kindness is Punk
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                          #68

                          The problem is greed, ad infinitum.

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                          • M mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca

                            I still had ad block off when I opened it initially

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                            breadoven@lemmy.world
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                            Weird. I have uBlock and it was fine.

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                            • C chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world

                              This isn’t gold. The value comes from the extraction part. That’s the really expensive and dirty part. It’s like salt in the ocean: insanely abundant but prohibitively expensive to extract.

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                              minorkeys@lemmy.world
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                              The value comes from the material extracted being sold for profit in some way.

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                                Satellite-linked AI analysis suggests Quebec’s Cisco lithium project could contain about 329 million metric tons of ore, helping guide new drill targets within days.

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                                beardededsquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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                                I wonder if Elon will call for couping Canada to gain access to it.

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                                • R Rhoeri

                                  America: “That’s ours! We called it!”

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                                  nomorereddit@lemmy.today
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                                  Well take it by any force needed, brother. Citation: iraq 1 and Iraq 2

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                                  • no_eponym@lemmy.caN no_eponym@lemmy.ca

                                    You want some of the impacts of making those value added products in your back yard?

                                    A key reason why Canada ships its oil, lumber, and minerals elsewhere for processing is because there is a human cost to processing these things that moat people don’t want to pay.

                                    Also, where clean processing is possible it makes processed materials cost-prohibitive when you can just buy the stuff from jurisdictions where health and environmental laws are lax or non-existent and you can process however you like.

                                    Well, tax the dirty processors and eliminate them from the supply chain, you might suggest! That’s not easier either, see eliminating forced labour from the supply chain as an example.

                                    I’m not saying nothing should or could be done about Canada’s extraction-only economy, just that it isn’t as easy it may appear at first glance.

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                                    ikidd@lemmy.world
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                                    Well, we’ve figured it on things like canola (crush for oil), peas (fractionation plants), lumber (sawmills) and cattle (packing plants). Those have pretty much been in spite of ourselves, not because, as they’ve flourished when we’ve had trade wars with the US/China (or BSE as the case may be).

                                    We just need a nice crippling tariff on raw lithium and we’ll invest in making batteries. Maybe an export tariff for anything that heads to the US, and funnel that to startup some competition to CATL. The amount of human labor a LFP plant uses is pretty minimal. It would give us all those high-tech retraining positions I keep hearing about we’re going to get any day now.

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                                      JustEnoughDucks
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                                      Wasn’t the last time a Canadian company discovered an “inexhaustable supply” of some mineral it was a gold scam that was one of the biggest mining industry scams in history that scammed people out of their pensions?

                                      Please, I would like to see chain-of-custody third party samples before jumping to conclusions.

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                                        juice@midwest.social
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                                        Sounds like a dictatorship that needs McLiberated™

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                                          lefantome@programming.dev
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                                          This is just an ad for a satellite exploration company. It is not even that big a deal.

                                          From the article, “That potential would place Cisco among the largest hard-rock lithium deposits now being tracked in the James Bay region.”

                                          So, not even the biggest in the area.

                                          Also, Sodium Ion is about to make Lithium much less of a big deal.

                                          Still great economically but hardly as world changing as the headline makes out.

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