NEWS –  U.S. Department of Energy recently discovered the world’s largest Lithium reserve beneath California’s Salton Sea
SALTON SEA

• Shallow saline lake
• Southeastern part of the U.S. state of California – in the Colorado Desert
• One of the largest inland seas in California
• Remnant of prehistoric Lake Cahuilla
• Accidentally created in the early 20th century when the Colorado River breached a canal system and flowed into the Salton Sink, a below-sea-level area in the California desert which continued for about two years, creating the present-day Salton Sea
• Surrounded by the Salton Trough, a geological depression
• Has a high salinity level, much higher than that of the Pacific Ocean

 LITHIUM:

• Soft, silvery-white metal
• Alkali metals group of the periodic table of the elements
• Features: lowest density + lightest of the solid elements + reacts vigorously with water
• Body-centered cubic crystal structure.
• Found combined in small amounts in igneous rock in brine deposits
• Important in rechargeable batteriesfor mobile phones, laptops, digital cameras, and electric vehicles