Lilac Solutions raises $150 Million; will finally enable lithium production at a scale that meets demand

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210922005978/en/Lilac-Solutions-Announces-150-Million-Series-B-to-Scale-Lithium-Supply-for-the-Electric-Vehicle-Era

"patented ion exchange technology that facilitates production of lithium from brine resources with high efficiency, minimal cost, and ultra-low environmental footprint... product is 10,000x faster than the competition... means much more affordable electric cars... allows brine to be returned back underground following lithium recovery... recently completed its first field pilot"

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Drilling for ‘white gold’ is happening right now at the Salton Sea

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-11-15/drilling-for-white-gold-is-happening-right-now-at-the-salton-sea

U.S. Looks to Extract Lithium for Batteries from Geothermal Waste

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-looks-to-extract-lithium-for-batteries-from-geothermal-waste/

Lithium from German geothermal plants could supply a million electric vehicles a year from 2025

https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/lithium-from-german-geothermal-plants-could-supply-a-million-electric-vehicles-a-year-from-2025/

Micro drilling turbines improve efficiency of geothermal systems

https://www.qut.edu.au/news?id=175051

How a few geothermal plants could solve America's lithium supply crunch and boost the EV battery industry

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-03-geothermal-america-lithium-crunch-boost.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

Government Invests $5M to Turn the Rust Belt Into the Lithium Belt

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkp8eb/government-invests-5m-to-turn-the-rust-belt-into-the-lithium-belt?utm_source=reddit.com

How This Nanotechnology is Changing Mining and Batteries – Explained

https://undecidedmf.com/how-this-nanotechnology-is-changing-mining-and-batteries-explained/

EnergyX: Lithium mining times from 18 months to a few days; purity from 20% rises to 90%
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtGgQBzmB2Q

Designer molecules may help valuable minerals float

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-molecules-valuable-minerals.html

Revolutionizing lithium production on a string

https://techxplore.com/news/2023-09-revolutionizing-lithium-production.html

Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/lithium-discovery-in-us-volcano-could-be-biggest-deposit-ever-found/4018032.article

Researchers see long-term prospects for lithium extraction at geothermal plants

https://techxplore.com/news/2023-09-long-term-prospects-lithium-geothermal.html

GM leads $50 million funding round in Energyx to unlock U.S.-based lithium supply for rapidly scaling EV production
https://energyx.com/press-release/gm-leads-50-million-funding-round-in-energyx-to-unlock-u-s-based-lithium-supply-for-rapidly-scaling-ev-production/

Reduced reagent consumption and operating costs while maintaining high levels of gold recovery

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/envirometal-technologies-makes-process-breakthrough-133000707.html

Itronics: Final leach to remove residual cyanide and to recover minor amounts of residual metals including silver and gold

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/itronics-announces-its-rock-kleen-chemistry-successfully-recovers-gold-from-mine-tailings-significant-new-discovery-gold-recovery-exciting-breakthrough-301664121.html

A hidden deposit of lithium in a US lake could power 375 million EVs

https://interestingengineering.com/science/a-hidden-deposit-of-lithium-in-a-us-lake-could-power-375-million-evs

Chemists invent a more efficient way to extract lithium from mining sites, oil fields, used batteries

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-chemists-efficient-lithium-sites-oil.html