Inside the McDermitt Caldera, a 16‑million‑year‑old volcanic crater straddling the Oregon–Nevada border, geologists have ...

A new chemical extraction process could help the U.S. dramatically reduce its dependence on foreign lithium supplies, ...

Mississippi sits on the Smackover Formation, which contains one of the nation’s highest-grade lithium brines. The element is ...

The United States is accelerating domestic lithium production through government investment, new extraction technologies, and ...

U.S.-based manufacturing eliminates Chinese supply chain risk, supporting secure domestic lithium production OAKLAND, ...

But soon, prices crashed back down to earth. We saw lower-than-expected demand for EVs in the US, and developers ramped up mining and processing to meet demand. Through late 2024 and 2025, lithium ...

A company hoping to extract lithium from underground brines in south Arkansas announced Tuesday that it had completed technical testing that it said demonstrated that the direct lithium extraction ...

The facility, built by Qinghai CITIC Guoan Technology Development Co., Ltd. in Qinghai Province, has begun operating at full ...

China spot prices surge; 2026 deficit forecast; junior miner deals and high-grade drill hits from PMET & Q2. Read more here.

Conventional lithium extraction requires several complex steps, as well as the use of acid and high temperatures, over the course of several hours. Researchers at Penn State have developed a new ...

While lithium extraction technologies generally focus on ways to get the essential metal out of the ground, there's another source to mine: existing batteries that no longer work. A new technique ...

Through a newly signed trade agreement with Mercosur, the European Union gained priority access to substantial reserves of critical minerals and agricultural products. This long-negotiated pact ...