The mining industry is working to boost freshwater recycling while also developing direct lithium extraction (DLE) technologies as it races to reinvent how the battery metal is produced for the green energy transition, executives said. The surging global demand for lithium has sparked widespread interest in DLE technologies, which use less land and can operate far faster than hard rock mining and brine evaporation ponds - the traditional ways to process the white metal.
The mining industry is working to boost freshwater recycling while also developing direct lithium extraction technologies as it races to reinvent how the battery metal is produced for the green energy transition, executives said.
Now, DLE developers are racing to boost freshwater recycling as they fine tune technology, part of a push to ensure they do not lose community support before their industry has a chance to go fully commercial. Privately-held EnergyX, which counts General Motors as an investor, said it can recover as much as 90% of its freshwater, a number its scientists are working to increase.
Whereas DLE once had many questioning if it even could replace traditional lithium mining, those worries have now faded, executives said.
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