The plant made by water and resource recovery company Gradiant will launch in 2026, extracting lithium with record purity.

Concurrently, EVE launched its transoceanic lithium battery recycling platform, planning to expand to 1,000+ collection points for a global network. Its digital traceability platform enables battery ...

Lithium is at the center of a lot of current technologies, and as such, there's a considerable demand. But there are quite a ...

Adam Vengosh Weinthal (left) and Gordon Williams collect surface brines from the salt crust of the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia.

They are piloting direct lithium extraction, an emerging technology that advocates say could support a multibillion-dollar industry in the US — and loosen China’s current stranglehold over ...

The company, Princeton Critical Minerals (formerly PureLi), which emerged from the University’s ecosystem for innovation and entrepreneurship, has developed a technology for boosting minerals ...

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

However, extracting lithium from this ore requires very high temperatures (up to 1,100°C) and strong acids. This process is expensive, energy-intensive, and potentially dangerous for workers.

Lithium carbonate is extracted from underground brine pools and man-made lakes. While lithium hydroxide is a by-product of lithium carbonate, it’s also found in spodumene ore, which is basically ...

Direct Lithium Extraction. Direct extraction targets the lithium atoms through a selective extraction process. This can be achieved through a few different methods: Adsorption-based DLE, where the ...

One of the companies aiming to extract lithium from south Arkansas' salty brine aquifers announced Thursday morning that it had finalized a $225 million grant from the federal government that would ...