South America’s lithium triangle is home to vast evaporation ponds that quietly produce lithium, often called white gold, ...

Based on fundamental research, a new startup is upending decades-old approaches for the way the world extracts lithium and other materials.

For scale, each of the long, skinny ponds in the center is nearly a kilometer long. Source: NASA Earth Observatory, by Lauren Dauphin Mining lithium brine is quite unlike any of the other methods ...

A development agreement has been struck between a Nevada county and North America’s largest lithium-boron project to bring in ...

A Princeton University startup has developed a technology that promises to boost the production of minerals such as lithium ...

An Alternative To Mining For Minerals When it comes to producing the key minerals to feed the world's industries, there are really only 3 possible sources: mining rocks, recycling, and purifying ...

The competition regulator's approval follows endorsements from the EU, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia.

Albemarle, the company that operates the country’s only operating lithium mine ... pump stations and related pipelines, two brine ponds and future well drilling, the agency said.

Mining the lithium involves extracting salty brine and storing it in large evaporation ponds where the sun removes the water, leaving behind a solution that is then chemically treated to produce ...

salty water is first pumped out of the lake into a series of shallow ponds, then concentrated using solar energy into a lithium chloride brine, which is subsequently treated with soda to ...