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Gautama Mehta 13/12/25 Grist] | Gautama Mehta 13/12/25 Grist] | ||
Over the last decade and a half, deep-sea mining has captured worldwide attention as a potential source for minerals like manganese, nickel, and cobalt that are needed to make electric vehicle batteries and other technology in support of the global energy transition. | Over the last decade and a half, deep-sea mining has captured worldwide attention as a potential source for minerals like manganese, nickel, and cobalt that are needed to make electric vehicle batteries and other technology in support of the global energy transition. | ||
=====Chile’s lithium boom promises jobs and money — but threatens a critical water source===== | |||
[https://grist.org/energy/chile-lithium-mining-salt-flat-water/ by Muriel Alarcón 26/3/25 Grist] | |||
Peine sits on the edge of the nearly 1,200-square-mile Atacama Salt Flat, or Salar de Atacama. Sitting beneath its surface, dissolved in underground saline waters called brine, is one of the largest, most concentrated reserves of lithium in the world. | |||
