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CTR, for example, claims that it will create more than 4,000 jobs that will bring "much-needed economic stimulus and opportunities" to the region.

CTR, in particular, aims to achieve a milestone of producing 25,000 tons of battery-grade lithium compounds by 2025, an amount of more than 3 percent of all global production in 2022.

"With CTR we have a great resource and with EnergyX we have a great potential technology," said GM spokesperson Priscilla Zuchowski.

GM said it is working with CTR and EnergyX to find the best technology to extract lithium from California's Salton Sea, where CTR has been trying to use technology from Lilac Solutions, Koch Industries and others to produce the battery metal.

CTR received $4.5 million in grants from California in 2020 for lithium research.