A method known as direct extraction is better for the environment, but has yet to prove itself economical. At a llama farm outside the picturesque desert town of Tilcara in the mineral-rich province ...

Historically, lithium has been produced using two approaches: hard rock mining of spodumene deposits, as seen at the ...

Large-scale lithium mining may impact scarce and precious water resources and balance in Argentina’s arid ecosystems, says Clemente Flores, president of the El Angosto Indigenous community. Flores ...

The U.S. government is looking to secure supplies of rare earth metals and lithium. Any government investment implies new resources and government contracts for companies. The U.S. government may be ...

“Corkran’s systematic evaluations revealed two new processes,” says Boutt, professor of Earth, geographic, and climate sciences at UMass Amherst and the paper’s senior author. AMHERST, Mass. — One of ...

Less than 50 kilometers (31 miles) separate Serbia's Jadar Valley and Bosnia's Mount Majevica — two regions divided by a border but bound together by lithium deposits and fears of industrial plunder.

This article was submitted as part of the Global Voices Climate Justice fellowship, which pairs journalists from Sinophone and Global Majority countries to investigate the effects of Chinese ...

In 2023, the Argentine crude oil exporter Pan American Energy announced its plans to start exploring for lithium in Argentina’s Jujuy and Salta provinces. Sources told Mongabay that the company did ...

Element3 just raised a fresh round of funding to launch the first US commercial lithium extraction plants, and it’s sourcing the lithium from oil and gas wastewater in Texas. That’s a big deal because ...

Jamie Hinch receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council's Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership. The woman’s eyes blazed as I scanned the feedback form she was showing me.

Shares of Chinese lithium producers rose sharply while South Korean battery stocks strengthened, after Chinese battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology suspended a major mining project. The gains ...

The United States is actively increasing its domestic lithium production to decrease its dependence on a few nations, particularly China, for lithium supplies and battery manufacturing. Despite a ...