Lithium: The New California Gold Rush
October 19, 2011, Forbes – Standing on the edge of the Salton Sea in southern California’s sun-blasted Imperial Valley, Luka Erceg surveys a Mad Max landscape—head-high mud volcanoes, hulking geothermal power plants shooting steam into a pale-blue sky and the rotting corpses of tilapia, mouths agape, stranded on a saline shore that sits 227 feet below sea level. The air is heavy with a pungent mix of sulfur, salt and dead fish.
Smells like money.