A new study estimates that the McDermitt Caldera hosts claystones containing 20 million to 40 million metric tons of lithium.
A group of US geologists may have found what they believe to be the world’s largest lithium reservoir inside an ancient supervolcano sitting along the Nevada-Oregon border.estimates that the McDermitt Caldera, a large volcanic crater measuring approximately 45 km long and 35 km wide in southeastern Oregon and northern Nevada, hosts claystones containing 20 to 40 million metric tons of lithium.
The McDermitt Caldera represents a third type of lithium resource called volcano sedimentary, which occurs as sediments associated with centers of silicic volcanism. Chief among volcano sedimentary resources are those within the McDermitt Caldera, the study highlighted. “They seem to have hit the sweet spot where the clays are preserved close to the surface, so they won’t have to extract as much rock, yet it hasn’t been weathered away yet,” Anouk Borst, a geologist at KU Leuven University who was not involved in the study,South-north schematic cross section of McDermitt caldera at the time of magmatic resurgence. Credit: Benson et al., Science Advances, 2023)
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