Lithium is emerging as a strategic resource, pushing Europe to develop domestic mining and reduce dependence on Chinese-controlled critical mineral supply chains. In recent years, the European Union ...

In chemistry, some problems are so persistent that they are nicknamed “forever.” Perfluoroalkyl and ...

A pioneering accord meant to give Indigenous communities more of a say over lithium mining has left people in the Atacama desert divided like never before ...

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Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are primarily thought of as environmental pollutants, and most research ...

Rising global demand and volatile prices for lithium, essential for clean energy, are driving a domestic extraction rush in the US, with massive potential deposits discovered in Northeast Texas, ...

Zimbabwe's ban on raw lithium exports is forcing Chinese miners to rethink their strategy, speeding up plans to process the metal locally instead of shipping it to China's vast rechargeable battery ...

It’s early days for Ontario’s One Project, One Process (1P1P) framework but the mine and all-season road plan for Frontier ...

Albemarle marked a milestone in its plans to restart mining operations with the completion of the de-watering process of the open pit.

A new solvent-based technique could change how lithium is extracted from brines, potentially making the process faster, ...

Rice researchers have developed a process to use PFAS to extract lithium from high-salinity brine pools, described in a study recently published in Nature Water.