Lithium-ion batteries power everything from our vape pens to electric cars, but they have one glaring issue: they rely on ...

open image in gallery A brine pool used to extract lithium is seen at a salt flat of Cauchari Olaroz, Argentina in November 2017. New technology has been developed to extract lithium from brines ...

People in northwest Argentina let lithium mining companies onto their land. They didn’t expect to lose their water sources in the process.

22) in Nature Sustainability, demonstrate how the innovative method could efficiently extract lithium from low-grade brines with high magnesium content. At the heart of the innovation is a type of ...

Lithium extraction – a nascent industry in the US – usually involves open-pit drilling and creating huge evaporation pools ... to access the saltwater brine about 10,000 feet underground.

Electric vehicles need batteries, and most batteries are made with lithium, a critical material European automakers are ...

US-based Volt Lithium has produced 99.5% battery-grade lithium carbonate from oilfield brine in the Permian Basin in West Texas, using its DLE technology. The company has developed DLE technology ...

Lithium laces the salty brine from the Smackover Formation, a geologic formation made of permeable limestone that stretches across parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi ...