Montezuma Valley – The US Saudi Arabia of Lithium
American Lithium Minerals, Inc. has strategically position itself as a Montezuma Valley Nevada based lithium brine miner to support the growing demand for lithium based battery production in the USA.
American Lithium Minerals, Inc. owns 100% of the mineral rights to four claim blocks comprising some 16,000 acres strategically located in Esmeralda County Nevada in close proximity to major support centers and a local trained workforce. Work can be carried out all year round. Nevada has a long mining history.
The exploration of Montezuma Valley will be made much easier by the fact that the sources, transportation and the traps where the brine collects are all near the surface.
This is a geological rarity and gives American Lithium Minerals a very strong exploration advantage that significantly sets them apart from most mineral deposits and exploration models. Estimates of the lithium reserves of Nevada's Montezuma Valley area suggest that over eons, as much as 700 million kg of lithium have leached from the surrounding rhyolite lava flow and underlying ash-flow into the drainage system of Montezuma Valley area.
The volcanics surrounding the valley contain some of the richest lithium concentrations in the world and their brines and evaporities have been accumulating in the vast Montezuma and Clayton Valley for at least 33,000 years. These brines have the highest lithium content of any brines tested by the USGS in the southwestern US. The Clayton Valley area brines have been estimated to contain 700 million kg of Lithium to a depth of 1,200 ft. (Kunasz, 1975) The Clayton Valley area brines have the highest lithium content of all brines located in the southwestern United States.
The valley contains the only operating lithium mine in the US as well as the only lithium brine operation in the country, but only a fraction of this vast lithium resource is accounted for in the area's existing lithium operation.
Clayton Valley area is located in the center of Esmeralda County Nevada approximately 40 miles west of Goldfield and approximately 50 miles southwest of Tonopah. Access to the valley is by good paved road.
Lithium exists in Clayton Valley area in two modes: in solution within a brine and multiple solid phases such as hectorite (a clay mineral) and halite (evaporite salts). Lithium brine resources are now the preferred method of lithium recovery. The easily-processed brine is the resource American Lithium Minerals will exploit.
