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Pennsylvania is sitting on major untapped lithium 'white gold mine' that could generate new billion-dollar industry, government study finds

Pennsylvania could be at the center of America's new 'white gold rush' with the discovery of a major untapped source of lithium in the state.

Government scientists have shown that they can filter the precious metal from the state's shale gas wastewater: pulling tons of lithium per day, with little left behind.

They concluded that Pennsylvania alone could produce nearly half of the total US demand for lithium — starting in the first year — supplying this key compound that's needed to power everything from smartphones to electric vehicles to solar panels.

A project on this scale could make Pennsylvania a rust-belt Saudi Arabia, ending US dependence on lithium from China, which now controls 90 percent of the market.

And unlike many new lithium-mining proposals, which have threatened scarce water resources from Arkansas to Colorado, this process would make a virtue of the high-pressure water already used by the hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, of natural gas.

With 72 proposed lithium mines across the US, the discovery could help reduce local ecological fallout as America shifts away from 'greenhouse gas'-emitting fossil fuels.




'Wastewater from oil and gas is a burgeoning issue,' as one government geochemist behind the new study put it. 'We're looking at a beneficial use of that waste.'

Fracking is a process used to extract natural gas from deep underground shale rock, via the injection of more than a million gallons of water, sand and chemicals at high pressure into drilled wells.

The pressurized mix cracks open the shale rock, creating new fissures that are held open by the sand, allowing natural gas from the rock to flow up into the well.

However, despite having reduced US dependence on foreign oil, fracking has proven to be highly controversial due to its use of chemicals, groundwater contamination, noise, air pollution and even its ability to create earthquake-like tremors.

And these risks have become a fiercely debated issue in Pennsylvania, where fracking has been linked to cancer other health issues.

Over 1,200 tons of lithium could be recovered per year from Pennsylvania's fracking wastewater alone, according to the new research, produced in collaboration by the US National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and the University of Pittsburgh.

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