Lithium is essential to the modern world, but its extraction has always carried a ...

Engineers have developed a new technology that enables the direct extraction of lithium from solid salt mixtures derived from ...

Extracting lithium from brine is environmentally unfriendly. A new process extracts lithium more efficiently and is better ...

Canadian company Volt Lithium has developed and pilot-tested a new low-cost lithium extraction method to pull this critical battery metal out of low-concentration brines. Now it plans to turn old oil ...

As the electric vehicle market booms, the demand for lithium—the mineral required for lithium-ion batteries—has also soared. Global lithium production has more than tripled in the last decade. But ...

More than half of the world’s lithium comes from minerals. But wringing the critical battery metal from hard-rock ores is ...