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One of the staffers was browsing the default newsfeed on her phone while her S.O. binged some Star Wars spinoff when an article about a
potential source of lithium caught her eye. Thinking he might be interested in the info, she forwarded the URL to the staff geologist. Once he woke up from his nap, S. G. read the "information" with increasing horror. Oh, sure, freelancer
Bob Yirka managed to get a few things right; such as the importance of lithium to the modern economy and the location of the apparent deposit, but as for the rest of "
New evidence suggests McDermitt Caldera may be among the largest known lithium reserves in the world" (at phys.org)? Naahhhhhhh.
