In the race to meet the growing global demand for lithium -- a critical component in batteries for electric vehicles -- a team of researchers has developed a breakthrough lithium extraction method ...

During the recent Digging Deeper: The Future of Mining Benzinga virtual event, Alex Wylie, president, CEO, and director of Volt Lithium, detailed the company’s groundbreaking approach. Unlike ...

Top-down view of a cylindrical device showing clear droplets on the bottom surface. When humid air passes over brine-mining waste in a cylindrical tower, lithium chloride is first to absorb moisture ...

Emerging DLE technologies offer higher recovery efficiency, faster production times, and a smaller environmental footprint compared with traditional methods like solar evaporation. Current pilot ...

Conventional lithium mining is a slow, water-intensive, and environmentally damaging process. The prevailing technique, which involves evaporating brine in large open ponds, requires 12 to 18 months ...

The U.S. has spent many years trailing nations like China in terms of lithium production, but a big discovery may change all ...

The world needs lithium to power its electrical future, but getting it is a costly and dirty business. Wastewater unicorn Gradiant thinks there might be a better way, and just launched a new company ...

5V, a newly formed partnership between Five Rivers Cattle Feeding, LLC and Viserion Grain, LLC, will develop a new Union Pacific (UP)-served facility in Dalhart, Tex. Also, Frontier Lithium has closed ...

Germany, the land of precision engineering and home to some of the greatest automakers, has just made a groundbreaking discovery of a huge lithium carbonate deposit. Located in Anhalt, Saxony, the ...

Menachem Elimelech, the Nancy and Clint Carlson Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Photo credit: Gustavo Raskosky/Rice University). In the race to meet the growing global demand for ...