E3 Lithium will test whether it can extract lithium from old, depleted oil and gas reservoirs at its plant site in Alberta. Read more
That has miners and researchers alike looking for alternative methods to supply more critical minerals.
But the technology needs to adjust for individual brine chemistries, which means each DLE process must be tailormade for each mining project. Mining analysts at Red Cloud Securities Inc. said the extraction process that may work for, say, Alpha Lithium Corp. at its Salar de Tolillar project in Argentina may not work for Grounded Lithium Corp.’s Kindersley project in Saskatchewan.Article content
The main challenge with DLE is scalability, according to Red Cloud Securities. Lab tests conducted at various projects have successfully produced lithium from brine, but they don’t always mimic real-world conditions.
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