Researchers develop methods to extract lithium from salt lakes, seawater, and sediments to meet rising demand from EVs and ...

You could be forgiven for thinking there’s no water in the Atacama Desert. In fact, the driest desert on Earth has ...

Engineers from Nanjing University evaluate new methods of extracting the metal from seawater, salt lakes and even sediments As demand for the lithium that powers China's booming electric car industry ...

Extracting lithium from hard rocks is laborious and expensive, however, and most of that produced (roughly 83%) at present comes from brine lakes and salt pans: salty water is first pumped out of ...

As one of the regions with the richest lithium resources globally, South America, especially the "Lithium Triangle" (Bolivia, ...

Another critical issue centers on the ownership of lithium within produced water. Produced water—a byproduct of oil and gas extraction—can contain lithium, raising questions over who owns this ...

Researchers at UNSW Sydney have developed a new proton battery that could potentially replace lithium-ion batteries.

In a patch of South America rich in lithium, used to make batteries for electric cars and other tech, Bolivia is lagging ...

At a site in rural Utah controlled by privately held US Magnesium, Ibat said last week it has started its own direct lithium extraction ... The intensive water use and physical footprint of ...

The country plans to launch a commercial pilot programme for direct extraction ... extracting lithium from oilfield brine run-offs is currently higher than traditional methods from salt flats.

Chile, the lithium producer with the richest brine deposits, is looking to expand into new types of extraction including ... lithium from lakes under salt flats that dot its northern desert ...