As global demand for lithium skyrockets, this newly devised method could be a huge boon for lithium production.

For scale, each of the long, skinny ponds in the center is nearly a kilometer long. Source: NASA Earth Observatory, by Lauren Dauphin Mining lithium brine is quite unlike any of the other methods ...

As liquid evaporates in successive ponds, undesirable salts precipitate ... Williams and Vengosh analyzed the chemistry of lithium brine and waste materials associated with a pilot mining ...

Li3 Energy, Inc. (OTCBB:LIEG) is lithium exploration company with various ... reduce the time that we would need in the evaporation ponds in the typical recovery process. Clearly the reduction ...

While DLE technologies vary, they are comparable to common household water softeners and aim to extract about 90% or more of the lithium from brines, compared to about 50% using ponds. That's ...