>Lithium
$540 billion at the bottom of the lake
18M tons of white gold
4M tons of lithium
According to SFGATE, getting to the lithium will not be easy and will require "geothermal production wells to extract the lithium-rich brine from thousands of feet below the earth’s surface, and once the lithium is dissolved from the brine, the liquid is pumped back underground."
As well as the 180,000 residents who live nearby who could be impacted by the drilling, the water supply, which comes from the Colorado River could also be affected as a huge amount of water will be needed to complete the process.
A struggling California region is suddenly poised to become very, very rich
https://www.sfgate.com/california/article/imperial-county-california-salton-sea-lithium-18527598.php
