The other traditional method is to leach lithium from ore ... generate more by increasing the surface area—so more salt ponds ...

Just how toxic the photographed lithium leach field ponds are is a difficult question to answer, so we have contacted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in hopes of clarifying.

Noram is actively conducting a series of chloride-based leaching tests to extract lithium from Zeus claystone material. Noram has contracted Activation Laboratories, Inc. ("ALS"), of Ancaster ...