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RENO, Nev. — Take away the remnants of more than 200 exploratory drill holes and you’re left with a rural landscape that looks just like any other in Humboldt County.

Beneath all that sagebrush and dry dirt, however, lies a metal that could potentially charge the Silver State in more ways than one.

It’s a project that represents a $40 million gamble so far for Western Lithium. That’s how much the company has spent to prove the existence of a resource that’s seeing increased demand in a technology-hungry world: lithium.