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Re:Tesla offered $325M for Salton Sea startup by jsprogrammer on Saturday June 11, 2016 @01:24PM (#11884311)
Usually these liquids are pooled into evaporation ponds to be boiled away by the sun, for free.

Take a close look at aerial images pretty much anywhere in the US SW desert.

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Re:Tesla offered $325M for Salton Sea startup by ci5er on Saturday June 11, 2016 @02:48PM (#11884726)
I do geothermal projects using depleted oil wells in that part of the country -- so I know exactly what you are talking about. The question ends up being economics for recovery, isolation transport and sale.

EDIT: Just because you can see crunky white stuff from the sky doesn't mean you have a lithium mine on your hands! :-)

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