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•California's Salton Sea region has 18 million tons of lithium in its hot geothermal brine
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The U.S. Department of Energy formally acknowledged the Salton Sea region in California as a "rich domestic lithium resource" in November 2023 .
The region's lakebed has 18 million metric tons of lithium in its “hot geothermal brine” Experts say these reserves are enough to produce 375 million EV batteries.
However, extraction and processing is water-intensive, and the region is deprived of it.
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