The purpose of this final project map was to prospect for potential clean energy options for Lithium

mineral deposits in the state of Nevada. Finding sources to power lithium ion batteries for the
future of electric vehicles and our existing domestic demand for energy; I used my current GIS
Spatial computing knowledge to prosect existing government.

1. Downloaded 5 separate shapefiles from for Inferred Lithium deposits including existing claims,
number of listings per locations, names, and other minerals in the area currently extracted by
existing companies.
a. This required looking at the metadata for: “ leases acquired thru either a competitive or
non-competitive process issued in accordance with a Geothermal Steam Act of 2005.
That said it displays the location of all currently authorized geothermal leases issued by
BLM Nevada State Office.”
b. I used sublime text to view the xml file to see authors, number of publications and dates
for relevancy. (See Exhibit 1)
c. Also, I downloaded a dataset for Nevada mines and energy producers who extract more
than just Lithium to see if a creating a buffer layer would be necessary. The existing data
with correct CRS coordinates was enough to verify the overlap.
d. I used an existing map from the Nevada Division of Minerals to see the overall of
Proposed Withdrawal from BLM (Proposed Open to the Public 290,433 Acres)* for
potential new cites that do not already overlap with companies with active claims from
shapefiles and excluded ecological reserves not too far from a road or city for ease of
access. (See Exhibit 2)
 e. Once I used this map and my current shape files to narrow down an area, I used the
information for the values found on the metadata for further Geoprocessing.
(https://services.arcgis.com/CXYUMoYknZtf5Qr3/ArcGIS/rest/services/
NVLithiumClaims/FeatureServer/layers)
f. Using the attribute table, I was then able to highlight select on the features in this region
and invert all the 80% of other rows in the rest of the state for simple deletion.
g. Using the UCLA geocoder to verify the locations from downloaded .csv files before and
after putting on QGIS was a useful cross checking step. This was able to verify the
Easting and Northing data matched the files I included in my final map. This Method
provided an ability to double check for accuracy after accounting for a Consistent (CRS)
Coordinate Reference system.
2. I should note that of the failed attempts which I was not able to figure out a solution.
a. I considered creating a buffer layer of the inferred cites to find lithium for 100 meters
but was unsuccessful. Changing unit of measure from degrees to meters in QGIS would
not allow me to run. It was not necessary to create a buffer layer since the dot location
already have a layer that plots a rectangle of land above the point listings.
b. Secondly, I attempted to rasterize one of these vector layers as I was not able to find
public information of near by volcanic public raster data. Most raster data for lithium
deposits was proprietary and my attempt to rasterize the above mentioned was from
existing claims failed due to inconsistent height and width resolutions parameters under
the raster > conversion > translate setting.
i. As a result, adding values of to those areas that were closer to inferred Lithium
deposits vs existing claims and map algebra was not possible.
Exhibit 1.
Exhibit 2.