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Researchers in Australia have developed a new nanofiltration technique that can separate lithium and magnesium from salt lake brines with high efficiency. Artwork created by students at the Monash ...

Lithium production has more than tripled in the last decade, with the electric vehicle market causing global demand to soar. However, current lithium production methods are rather inefficient – they ...

Summit Nanotech announced this week a major breakthrough in water efficiency for lithium extraction, marking a key step toward commercializing its sustainable direct lithium extraction (DLE) ...

Lilac Solutions is pioneering a new type of lithium extraction that could double US production in two years and shake up the industry. BOX ELDER COUNTY, Utah – On a bright afternoon in August, the ...

Silicon Valley startup Lilac Solutions has a method to get lithium for batteries that’s cheaper, easier on the environment and less water-intensive than mining: it plans to pull it from the Great Salt ...

During Tesla Battery Day on Tuesday, CEO Elon Musk revealed his company had entered into the mining business by buying the rights to lithium clay deposits in 10,000 acres in the Nevada desert. At the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Tesla held its socially distanced “battery day” last month at an outdoor parking lot in California, it ...

The global demand for batteries is surging as the world looks to rapidly electrify vehicles and store renewable energy (Credit: Getty Images) Lithium batteries are very difficult to recycle and ...

Using Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) technology, powered by renewable energy, CleanTech Lithium (CTL) aims to be a leading supplier of ‘green’ lithium to the EV and battery manufacturing market. It’s ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. On a bramble and bracken-covered hill above St Austell in Cornwall, Jeremy Wrathall walks towards a shallow pit ...