The electric vehicle boom could bring lithium mines back to North Carolina

Grist
By Blanca BegertAug 31, 2022, 10:45 am214 pts
In the Piedmont region of North Carolina, about 50 miles east of the Blue Ridge mountains, a thin, 25 mile-long belt of ore stretches north from the southern state line. The strip, called the Carolina Tin-Spodumene Belt, contains the country’s largest hard rock deposit of lithium. Back in the 1950s,…

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