The Colla Indigenous people claim Rio Tinto’s plans to extract the key mineral will harm fragile ecosystems and livelihoods ...

Cristóbal Olivares for NPR At the top of a craggy path in Socaire, a hilltop village deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert, a black flag whips in the wind above Jeanette Cruz’s house. The desert sun has ...

Compañia Minera Maricunga S.a. SANTIAGO, March 26 (Reuters) - Chile's government on Tuesday opened up more than two dozen lithium salt flats to private investment, while reserving the prolific Atacama ...

Test results achieved a lithium extraction rate of 92.9%, producing an overall lithium chloride purity above 99.5%, the ...

In this undated photo, mineral harvesting ponds used by Compass Minerals cover the northeast corner of the Great Salt Lake. Multiple companies pump the mineral-rich water of the lake into shallow ...

Chile's Atacama salt flat is sinking at a rate of 1-2 centimeters per year due to lithium brine extraction, Reuters reported Thursday, citing a study by the University of Chile that used satellite ...

The $870 million project in the northern province of Salta puts Argentina, the world’s No. 4 lithium producer, in the spotlight ahead of projects due online in the country in the coming months from ...

There is a moment most people recognise. A phone battery dips into the red. A charger is reached for without much thought.

Scientists from China's Northwestern Polytechnical University have used a lithium-free doping strategy to fabricate a perovskite solar cell based on a metal-free hole transport layer (HTL) made of ...

ONE OF THE BIG DANGERS AFTER HURRICANE HELENE IS THIS FIRES INVOLVING LITHIUM ION BATTERIES. BY NOW, MANY OF US HAVE SEEN THIS VIDEO FROM PINELLAS COUNTY OF A TESLA BURSTING INTO FLAMES, PARKED INSIDE ...