Southern California's Salton Sea may be sitting atop a lithium gold ... "It makes this among the largest lithium brine deposits in the world," Mckibben, a geochemist at the University of ...

With lithium, the Salton Sea area could become an even more central ... No lithium is being produced from the underground brine yet either, with a much-hyped lithium startup going bust even ...

Lithium will be extracted through geothermal plants, which drill down thousands of feet to bring the Salton Sea’s boiling brine to the surface, then use the steam it generates to turn clean ...

But the steaming volcanic stew is good for more than just its heat: The Salton Sea brine is also one of the world’s richest sources of lithium, a mineral that’s in high demand because it’s ...

Correction: This segment stated that the Salton Sea area alone could produce ... Geologist Michael McKibben says the brine is full of lithium. It's the sound of economic opportunity.

Only recently did companies begin to unlock the previously untapped potential of extracting resources beyond just heat from the brine. The aquifers near the Salton Sea hold enough lithium to ...

But mining companies see something else in the perennially-evaporating Salton Sea: opportunity. They want to harvest the lithium-rich brine from beneath the lake and transform the Imperial Valley ...

Extracting lithium from geothermal brine would have at least two key advantages ... Some of the players involved in the Salton Sea lithium rush are entities in which retail investors can't buy ...

Company execs say Comite Civico del Valle wants cash out of self-interest, but nonprofit head says that's false, it was for low income residents ...

A massive lithium discovery beneath ... valued at roughly $540 billion is trapped in the geothermal brine beneath the Salton Sea, a shrinking lake in Southern California's Imperial Valley.

bringing to 11 the number of geothermal plants operating on the southeastern edge of the Salton Sea. For decades, after those plants captured steam from the brine, they’ve sent all the lithium ...