A common lithium salt has revealed new possibilities ... instead of first melting into liquid water. Now, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ...

Adam Vengosh Weinthal (left) and Gordon Williams collect surface brines from the salt crust of the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia.

In their study, the researchers demonstrated near-perfect lithium selectivity ... critical elements from water sources," said Elimelech. "This could open the door to a new class of membrane ...

While water drives life and industry in the Triangle, lithium is critical to the global regulatory push for electrification and the growth of clean technology industries. The mineral is an ...

Emery County residents and environmentalists said that using water from the drought-stricken Colorado River system for an unproven project opens a dangerous door. “Because lithium hasn’t been ...

The startup is tackling bottlenecks in lithium battery recycling using a water-based carbonation recovery ... has customers beating a path to its door. “Customers are just storming this place ...

Lithium tends to occur in layers of volcanic ash, but it reacts quickly with water. When rain or snowmelt moves through the ash layers, lithium leaches into the groundwater, moving downhill until ...

Measuring water availability for lithium extraction can still be unpredictable, especially in the high-altitude Lithium Triangle in Chile, Argentina and Bolivia. Current models can overestimate ...