Lithios is part of a fresh crop of startups is trying to meet the booming demand for lithium by extracting it from subsurface ...

Mining companies, primarily in South America and China, pump salty water from underground brine reservoirs that are rich in lithium to the surface. The water is then stored in large manmade ponds.

They often mention the environmental toll some lithium mining operations have taken in South America and fear that may be repeated in Cornwall. "It's got to be done as cleanly as possible," says ...

The production of lithium from hard rock mines has a lot in common with other ... brines are found in the “Lithium Triangle” of South America. Occupying parts of Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina ...

The U.S. is rapidly expanding its lithium mining efforts, driven by government support and significant discoveries, but faces ...

A price floor system might be uniquely effective by insuring against the likelihood of Chinese overproduction.

US-based company SWA Lithium, which is a jointly-owned subsidiary of TSX- and NYSE-listed near-commercial lithium developer ...

Lithium is the essential metal ... exemplified by giant ponds in the Atacama desert in South America, is cheaper than the other main method, mining (the sun provides free energy for one thing).

An unexpected shutdown at one of China’s biggest lithium mines has left the industry ... The share prices of lithium miners from Australia to South America spiked Wednesday after reports that ...

America's lithium boom is underway with 72 proposed mines in the nation ... taking the American-made batteries and shipping them south of the border, where they could create or keep jobs at ...