In the Nevada desert, a Tesla cofounder digs deep for the new black gold
In the high desert 25 miles east of Reno, Gooseberry Mine is etched into the dusty Nevada hills. Until 1990, gold was dug out of the ground here. Now it’s mostly abandoned. “Black gold,” he said, smiling. Oil is the originalblack gold, of course. This has powered automobiles for a century. For this to really happen, we must recycle the big battery packs inside all these EVs. Redwood Materials, run by Tesla cofounderJB Straubel, is building North America’s biggest battery recycling operation....