Scientists have made a surprising discovery about the chemistry of lithium-rich salty waters, known as brines, found in some ...

Much of the world's lithium occurs in salty waters with fundamentally different chemistry than other naturally saline waters ...

At Emerson Exchange 2025 in San Antonio, Texas, Gabriel Carrizo, electronics engineer, Rio Tinto; Leonel Brunet, senior ...

Underground brine reservoirs flowing across Arkansas and neighbouring states contain high concentrations of the silvery-white metal; a US Geological Survey study published in October estimated the ...

The process of lithium brine recovery is simpler and it involves pumping the mineral-rich water (brine)—which can be found either on the surface or underground—into pools where it slowly ...

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 ...

Lithium brine pools, on the other hand, use massive amounts of water pumped to the earth's surface and then evaporated away—over the course of more than a year—to yield dried lithium.

Streams instead bring water into internally drained basins, where it pools ... The lithium-enriched runoff accumulates in basins and slowly concentrates into brines. "You've got something almost ...

Rio Tinto, which could be granted an intellectual property permit if its DLE technology is used for the project, will hold a ...

Additionally, extracting lithium from illite—unlike brine pools—does not require vast evaporation ponds, making it a potentially more environmentally friendly option. However, whether it will ...

While Rio Tinto has been signalling an inclination to favour lithium brine over spodumene, Australia's hard rock miners ...