Stephanie Sy traveled to California's Salton Sea where lithium deposits could help meet the country’s energy needs and support an economically devastated region. The demand for electric vehicles ...

But recently, the Salton Sea has become a hotbed of industrial activity filled with promise for the future. Beneath its shores lie untouched lithium deposits that experts believe could play a role ...

California’s Salton Sea has just made it onto the map of the planet’s largest ‘White gold’ aka lithium deposits, with a value of up to $540 billion. This could be a game changer for the U ...

Southern California's Salton Sea may be sitting ... how the U.S. obtains lithium, which is almost entirely imported. "It makes this among the largest lithium brine deposits in the world," Mckibben ...

which isn't connected to the Salton Sea. That large of a lithium deposit could "enable the United States to meet or exceed global lithium demand for decades," according to a press release from the ...

The Salton Sea will soon become a major hub for California's renewable energy economy, prompting the legislature to take steps to ensure future investments benefit local communities that have long ...

But recently, the Salton Sea has become a hotbed of industrial activity filled with promise for the future. Beneath its shores lie untouched lithium deposits that experts believe could play a role ...

but the Salton Sea in Southern California is the best-known example of a geothermal lithium brine deposit. Currently working in the Salton Sea geothermal field is Controlled Thermal Resources ...

The mineral-rich stew bubbling thousands of feet beneath the shores of Southern California’s Salton Sea contains one of the largest lithium deposits in the world, with enough of the valuable ...

also called the Salton Sea Geothermal Resource Area -- which is believed to contain one of the largest lithium deposits in the U.S. This field has 11 geothermal power plants along the southeastern ...