scientists found $540 billion of “white gold.” The Department of Energy funded a research project at the Salton Sea, which is the largest lake in the state, to determine just how much lithium ...

California's Salton Sea holds vast lithium reserves worth $540 billion, essential for electric vehicle batteries. However, ...

Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion ...

New research into lithium mining in the "Lithium Triangle" of Chile, Argentina and Bolivia—source of more than half of the ...

Ukraine also has Europe’s largest uranium reserves, crucial for nuclear power and weapons. It boasts significant deposits of ...

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Lithium, whose silvery-white colour tarnishes on oxidation when exposed to air, is the most electropositive metal (−3.04 V versus a standard hydrogen electode), the lightest (M = 6.94 g mol −1 ...

A recent report from Stanford University in the US, published in the journal Nature Communications, found that recycling lithium-ion batteries is far more environmentally friendly than mining for ...

Lithium can also be found in sedimentary deposits, but currently none are producing. Australia’s largest lithium producer is Albemarle (NYSE:ALB), which has interests in both the Greenbushes and ...