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[https://grist.org/energy/chile-lithium-mining-salt-flat-water/ by Muriel Alarcón 26/3/25 Grist] | [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. | 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. | ||
=====Uranium Mining Revival Portends Nuclear Renaissance in Texas and Beyond===== | |||
[https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01122024/texas-uranium-mining-nuclear-renaissance/ by Dylan Baddour 1/12/24 Inside Climate News] | |||
In the old ranchlands of South Texas, dormant uranium mines are coming back online. A collection of new ones hope to start production soon, extracting radioactive fuel from the region’s shallow aquifers. Many more may follow. | |||
