Carolinas lithium abundance could offset imports for centuries

The southern Appalachian region of the eastern United States contains an estimated 1.43 million metric tons of undiscovered, economically recoverable lithium oxide, enough to replace 201 years of U.S. imports at last year’s level, according to a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The USGS scientific paper published in Natural Resources Research shows that lithium is concentrated in……