Tesla has applied for a new patent that is revealing the lithium extraction process that Elon Musk vaguely described as “using table salt to basically extract lithium from ore” during Tesla’s Battery ...

DLE is the latest trend in extracting lithium and it typically competes with the traditional process of using brine ponds and an evaporation process. The large scale economics of DLE are still ...

Rare earth elements sit quietly inside smartphones, electric vehicles, and wind turbines, yet they are notoriously difficult and dirty to produce. A new lab technique now promises to roughly double ...

As demand — and competition — for critical minerals used in clean technologies heats up around the world, mining startups are ...

A mobile version of the dual-phase extraction (DPE) process for remediating sites affected by petroleum product releases has been used effectively in emergency response and where the cost of a fixed ...