Lithium in Extinct US Volcano - More Smoke Than Fire?

On August 30th a scientific paper discussed lithium in an extinct volcano in the western United States. But would it also increase supplies of a crucial battery-making ingredient?
"The mining industry is seldom that simple," argues Bloomberg's Energy Digest newsletter:The discovery of new deposits — be it the giant Simandou iron ore mine in Guinea or diamonds in Canada's Northwest Territories — rarely turns an industry on its head, and certainly not quickly. For lithium, that's likel