The location of critical minerals in areas of high or extremely high water stress could increase to 20% by 2050 ...

Researchers in China are exploring innovative methods to extract lithium from low-quality brines like seawater and salt lakes ...

As demand soars for powerful batteries, Bolivia dreams of striking it rich by tapping its huge lithium deposit. But will its people benefit? While the indigenous Aymara population harvests and ...

Apex has an option to acquire the Lithium Creek Project (the "Project") 70 KM east of Reno, Nevada. The Project is a new, district scale exploration project that has never been systemically explored ...

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A giant Chinese battery company, Catl, has won a bidding process to develop Bolivia's huge lithium reserves. The ultra-light metal is used in electric vehicle (EV) batteries, production of which ...

Around half of lithium mining comes from brine extraction while the rest is hard rock mining, which has even more damaging consequence to the environment. Shifting resource extraction away from ...

Saudi Arabia is exploring projects that can produce lithium for batteries in an effort to ramp up production in the Middle Eastern oil exporter. The country, in the midst of revamping its economy ...

The turquoise glimmer of open-air pools meets the dazzling ... where the metal is separated from brine. This is a commonly criticized method of producing lithium using tremendous amounts of ...