Lithium sits at the center of the battery economy. Yet getting it out of rock still looks surprisingly crude. Spodumene, the ...

Last year Cornish Lithium became the first business to produce lithium hydroxide mined and refined in Britain.

The Russian Natural Resources Minister Alexander Kozlov said, that industrial lithium production has not yet started in Russia and that preparations for its launch are currently underway ...

MIT researchers have developed a low-temperature method to extract battery-grade lithium from hard rock using a closed-loop process. The method may cut costs, reduce waste and help countries produce ...

The Salar Futuro lithium project, jointly developed by Chile's SQM and Codelco, is expected to complete environmental permit ...

A couple of weeks ago, an outbreak of hantavirus erupted aboard a cruise ship. Three people died, but the outbreak was kept ...

MIT researchers have developed a low-cost, eco-friendly method to extract lithium from hard rock using a closed-loop, acid-free process that minimizes environmental impact.

MIT and other researchers have developed a low-temperature, closed-loop extraction process that uses a liquid reagent to ...

Demand for lithium has surged in recent years as lithium-ion batteries increasingly power more of our world. And yet, even as places like the U.S., Europe, and Australia have abundant lithium ...

Startup Rock Zero is commercializing the research, which could cut costs and carbon emissions from lithium production.

Texas lawmakers proposed a bill to allow private-sector lithium mining companies to work on certain military bases.

While we make batteries based on many different chemistries, nothing has approached the massive scale at which we can produce ...