Not sure what you are talking about, it highly depends on the way lithium is extracted. A lithium hard rock mine is like any other open pid mine. Its a big hol

Not sure what you are talking about, it highly depends on the way lithium is extracted. A lithium hard rock mine is like any other open pid mine. Its a big hole in the ground with trucks going up and down. A brine operations is basically a bunch of huge fields of water that just sort of sit there. It needs lots of space. New forms of DLE Deep Brine mines look very much like a petroleum extraction well (even using old holes from that). However not fully commercial yet. However I would also say that petroleum extraction on a large scale, specially in the ocean has lots of bad effects. And the gas from those mines will escape for decades.