It is rich in lithium, and given our society's hunger for ... everything needs to be measured and exact for this rare mineral to form,” co-author Dr Francesco Putzolu, from the Natural History Museum, ...

A $40 million acquisition will increase Austin-based EnergyX's lithium extraction leases in the region to 50,000 acres, and ...

Jadarite—commonly known as kryptonite due to its chemical similarity to the mineral bane of Superman—has only every been ...

China announced Tuesday the discovery of new lithium ore deposits totaling 490 million tons in central Hunan Province.

The site, located roughly 2 miles (3 km) from the border of Dnipropetrovsk oblast, spans approximately 100 acres (40 hectares ...

So in this article, let’s take a quick look at the lithium-ion battery alternatives on the horizon. But first, let’s recap how modern batteries work and the many problems plaguing the technology.

Minerals like these are mined, and typically electrified, in order to separate out the commercial form of lithium: lithium carbonate. But the deposit in Thacker Pass is of a special kind, formed ...

Lithium batteries, which are used in a variety of products ranging from electric and hybrid vehicles to e-bikes and electrical energy storage systems, have been at the root of a headline-grabbing ...

Form has demonstrated that iron-air batteries can be built at one-tenth the cost of lithium-ion batteries, largely because the primary materials used to make them are cheap and abundant.

USGS Hydrologist Katherine Knierim thinks the lithium could “replace U.S. imports of lithium and more.” Getty Images. The US imports more than 25% of lithium used to manufacture products.