The 'white gold rush': Inside a lithium mine, where stores of recyclable energy lie | Nightline

The 'white gold rush': Inside a lithium mine, where stores of recyclable energy lie | Nightline

Lithium powers many of our devices as well as electric vehicles. Western states are believed to hold an immense amount of the metal and some say it could help the U.S. reach its climate goals.

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50 Comments

  1. Spence England on May 26, 2023 at 4:12 pm

    Climate change lololol

  2. 姜永国 on May 26, 2023 at 4:12 pm

    Hello friends, does your company provide lithium ore and copper ore supply? I come from China.

  3. Jimmy Woo on May 26, 2023 at 4:13 pm

    So let destroy the water and will it full of horrible chemical waste for these EVs.

  4. Seth L on May 26, 2023 at 4:15 pm

    So what benefit doe that flower give to society? Zero. Mine, baby, mine.

  5. Mark Miller on May 26, 2023 at 4:15 pm

    We don’t need EVs and there is no need for lithium.

  6. Trek on May 26, 2023 at 4:15 pm

    Check the same mining in Africa shi is deceiving you guys

  7. Gunga La Gunga on May 26, 2023 at 4:17 pm

    Your supposed electric vehicle, runs on electrity generated mostly by COAL and NATURAL GAS.

  8. Scrub on May 26, 2023 at 4:18 pm

    Liberals orgasmic about electric vehicles. Hugging trees but ignore strip mining damage and disposal. They hate coal but act like electricity is magic.

  9. Sean Goodgame on May 26, 2023 at 4:19 pm

    Any mining has a catastrophic effect on the planet for multiple decades anywhere so none of it is good. Huna.s are the most destructive wasteful species on this planet

  10. itz_killed on May 26, 2023 at 4:21 pm

    India has found world’s third largest reserve of lithium 5.9 million tons

  11. Variety of Things on May 26, 2023 at 4:22 pm

    Lithium Ion is not the only chemical for lithium batteries, *cobalt* is needed also. Read how it is mined! "They use pickaxes, shovels, stretches of rebar to hack and scrounge at the earth in trenches and pits and tunnels to gather cobalt and feed it up the formal supply chain." NPR February 1, 2023

    *white gold* my donkey!

    "How ‘modern-day slavery’ in the Congo powers the *rechargeable battery economy*" WTAF! is the *green new deal* trading one catastrophe for another? The 21st centuries waste, pollutants, environmental destroyers, replacing fossil waste with green waste! How in the hell is this better? 🤔

  12. Stevie Champagne on May 26, 2023 at 4:24 pm

    let’s go brandon

  13. Jose M. Romero Romero on May 26, 2023 at 4:27 pm

    I’m just hoping the rush for lithium will trigger an earthquake the San Andreas fault hopefully

  14. Spence England on May 26, 2023 at 4:28 pm

    Truth.anout your electric crap

    https://youtu.be/CIWvk3gJ_7E

  15. Music Only on May 26, 2023 at 4:29 pm

    this is terribly produced… Nightline sucks without Ted Koppel. This is like a cheesy Discovery show from the early 2000’s. Lame. Everyone involved should be ashamed of themselves.

  16. Lucky Dube in RC on May 26, 2023 at 4:29 pm

    one little flower ? really… leaching will affect all your ground water over millions of acres, poisoning everything, not just 1 plant and the called professional expert perfect means of treatment ? right…. where have you heard that before… they lie so they can profit, they will kill to profit like they already do!

  17. J Hansen on May 26, 2023 at 4:29 pm

    How is lithium recycled? Are we going to poison our water system and soil?

  18. Paul Olsen on May 26, 2023 at 4:29 pm

    Forget that flower!! You care so much about it you would relocate and reformulated a way for it to grow else where!!

  19. Ash Aliengena on May 26, 2023 at 4:30 pm

    These documentaries about Lithium mining/ production always seem to leave out the medical (psychiatric) applications of this amazing element. What about the millions of people who depend on a daily supply of Lithium carbonate to stabilize their moods? I’m one of those people. I have bipolar disorder. Lithium helps keep my head on straight. So… what happens to us mood disordered souls when the Lithium supply runs out? It’s not like I can run out and eat my neighbor’s electric car battery and be on my merry way…

  20. Margo on May 26, 2023 at 4:32 pm

    Draining aquifers? That’s super…

  21. justin smith on May 26, 2023 at 4:32 pm

    this is not the answer to our problems

  22. Bargdaffy 153 on May 26, 2023 at 4:33 pm

    Right they are in a Toxic Lithium Pit but they will just imagine they are in the Caribbean. Humans are Doomed.

  23. Max Powers on May 26, 2023 at 4:36 pm

    Literally thousands of plants animals and insects go extinct every day

  24. Jose M. Romero Romero on May 26, 2023 at 4:37 pm

    What this reporter is saying that he believes this big nose Gyp

  25. GRITZ-BLITZ on May 26, 2023 at 4:37 pm

    By taking all the minerals from the earth worldwide how is that helping the environment the planet

  26. weozol on May 26, 2023 at 4:39 pm

    The most corrupt people, hold the most power.

  27. ron armitage on May 26, 2023 at 4:39 pm

    They are lying ,they do not care about the environment All they care about is making money.

  28. Hello Howdy on May 26, 2023 at 4:40 pm

    Lithium mining kills the miners

  29. Jose M. Romero Romero on May 26, 2023 at 4:41 pm

    Of course is going to contaminate everything in life has a catch they’re just billionaires want to get rich they’re just the Devil in Disguise the United States one of horse every country to use lithium or stop using carbon fuel it’s going to create Wars Human Nature

  30. jb2._ on May 26, 2023 at 4:41 pm

    Can you snort lithium

  31. TheWord2020 on May 26, 2023 at 4:44 pm

    Climate change
    🤡 😂

  32. Jose M. Romero Romero on May 26, 2023 at 4:44 pm

    They’re just trying to sell the slip young make big business Fusion there is no money infusion Fusion means cheaper energy there is no money infusion governments lie I really hope that Russia and the United States go to war and used nuclear power

  33. Paul G on May 26, 2023 at 4:45 pm

    Dig up the wildflower and put it in a botanical garden 😂. There are so few of them

  34. justin smith on May 26, 2023 at 4:46 pm

    BIDEN IS WOTHLESS AF

  35. Robert on May 26, 2023 at 4:50 pm

    So creating an ecological disaster is good for the environment now, how does that work exactly?

  36. bucketheadrox on May 26, 2023 at 4:50 pm

    Here’s a challenge. Up production by 1000%. Then make a new video about how good it is for the climate. "We can regulate that" what u gone do? Meter lithium battery sales?

  37. Recycle Mind on May 26, 2023 at 4:51 pm

    OMG just for those plants the lithium business will be held. I understands the beauty it can give but we are talking here the future Technology

  38. Omid on May 26, 2023 at 4:52 pm

    It was great viideo
    Thank you so much

  39. oscarsmyweiner on May 26, 2023 at 4:53 pm

    Lithium mining is worse for the environment than fossil fuels

  40. Salah Ad-Din on May 26, 2023 at 4:55 pm

    Lies and more propaganda

  41. eedobee on May 26, 2023 at 4:59 pm

    It’s not the source of the power, just a store.

  42. Jack F on May 26, 2023 at 5:00 pm

    Just go ahead and destroy biodiversity for the preservation of homosapiens. That’s what is going to happen. Stop talking about it, pretending that any item in nature won’t be sacrificed for the dominant species. Just break out the hula-hoe and extinct this species of flower in the Nevada desert.

  43. J Hansen on May 26, 2023 at 5:00 pm

    How much diesel fuel will be used for mining?

  44. Samuel Waters on May 26, 2023 at 5:01 pm

    I like the coverage of domestic mining in a positive light.

  45. donk qb on May 26, 2023 at 5:02 pm

    slave

  46. Hari Sankar on May 26, 2023 at 5:03 pm

    What is 500 football fields long 🤣

  47. mcarr 09 on May 26, 2023 at 5:03 pm

    California and Nevada could really use that water

  48. AKASH ARADHYA on May 26, 2023 at 5:06 pm

    how is that people have no common sense as to how harmful li-ion is to the environment :/

  49. Jose M. Romero Romero on May 26, 2023 at 5:06 pm

    That is a big lie you big nose Devil in Disguise we have a country full of liars con artist Gyp

  50. Scrub on May 26, 2023 at 5:10 pm

    Liberals against oil fracking but ok with strip mining lithium 😅

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