Even if we were lucky enough to hit lithium rich brine, and to develop a technology which doesn't require evaporation ponds, it seems we may be in for a fight with some pretty big players for the right to extract that brine.
"It would appear that Albemarle Corp. does not wish to allow future competition for lithium brine production in the Clayton Valley basin," said Warren Stanyer, President and CEO of Nevada Sunrise. "Albemarle is the largest consumer of groundwater in the Clayton Valley, and our existing Permit, senior to many of Albemarle's own permits, is the only remaining appropriation of groundwater in the Clayton Valley that is potentially available for a lithium brine extraction operation."
