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Sustainable Battery Recycling: How Watercycle Technologies is Closing the Loop
With cutting-edge technology, Watercycle Technologies is transforming battery recycling and mineral recovery, supporting the ...
The Battery Boom Is Draining the Andes – And Scientists Say It’s Worse Than We Thought
New research reveals that current global water models dramatically overestimate the amount of freshwater available for ...
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We are vastly overestimating the amount of fresh water available for lithium mining, new study finds
New research into lithium mining in the “Lithium Triangle” of Chile, Argentina and Bolivia — source of more than half of the ...
The amount of fresh water available for lithium mining is vastly overestimated, hydrologists warn
New research into lithium mining in the "Lithium Triangle" of Chile, Argentina and Bolivia—source of more than half of the ...
Data farm proposed near Salton Sea could be first major development in Lithium Valley
Start-up aims to build 4 million square feet of geothermal-powered data centers on former hayfields in Imperial County.
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Chile’s lithium boom promises jobs and money — but threatens a critical water source
The Atacama Desert is a major source of lithium for EV batteries. As global demand ramps up, the local Lickanantay people are ...
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Examining the potential environmental effects of mining the world's largest lithium deposit
The world's largest known lithium deposit exists within a vast salt pan called the Salar de Uyuni, which stretches for thousands of square miles atop a high, dry ... brine from eight evaporation ...
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SQM's Low-Cost Lithium Poised to Benefit Rising EV Sales From Higher Long-Term Prices
Two factors make the Salar de Atacama the lowest-cost source of lithium in the world: dry ... brine-based producers. The company pumps the brine above ground into a network of large evaporation ponds.
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Chile’s lithium boom promises jobs and money — but threatens a critical water source
Simply put, lithium mining “is drying out the desert,” said ... producing more lithium with less brine and no use of continental water.” In a statement for Grist, SQM and Codelco assured ...