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Lithium Mining's Next Frontier.
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- Author(s): Nugent, Ciara (AUTHOR)
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TIME Magazine. 8/8/2022, Vol. 200 Issue 5/6, p62-67. 6p. 5 Color Photographs.
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To spot a lithium mine in South America, look for the evaporation ponds: gigantic, lurid, blue-green pools of brine. Power Train Business: electric vehicles The Vasquez brothers aren't used to visitors. Traditional lithium mines rely on a simple two-year-long evaporation process to separate lithium from the salty brines, allowing massive amounts of water to escape; by contrast, in a few hours Lilac's technology can recover up to twice as much lithium and return "virtually all" of the salt water to its aquifer, according to Promnitz. A few miles from the farm, Lake Resources, the mining company Promnitz founded six years ago, is now laying the groundwork for its lithium mine - dubbed Kachi. [Extracted from the article]
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