Lithium’s Supersized Volcano May Be Just Smoke: Energy Daily

Welcome to Energy Daily, our guide to the energy and commodities powering the global economy. Today, Yvonne Yue Li and Thomas Biesheuvel assess the feasibility of tapping a potentially supersized lithium deposit in the US. To learn Earth’s score on a test of its ability to sustain humans, read this. To get this newsletter in your inbox, sign up here.

In mining, few things capture the imagination more than hitting the mother lode and discovering a new super-deposit of minerals.

That’s certainly been the case in recent weeks after a scientific paper published a theory on how a huge deposit of lithium was formed in an extinct volcano ...