Lithium Mining, Nevada
This image from NASA Terra spacecraft shows the once-abandoned mining town of Silver Peak, Nevada, which began to thrive again when Foote Mineral Company began extracting lithium from brine below the floor of Clayton Valley in 1966.
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NASA ID
PIA18553
Date Created
August 5, 2014
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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