Lithium sits at the center of the battery economy. Yet getting it out of rock still looks surprisingly crude. Spodumene, the ...

While we make batteries based on many different chemistries, nothing has approached the massive scale at which we can produce ...

Startup Rock Zero is commercializing the research, which could cut costs and carbon emissions from lithium production.

A new process enables the extraction of lithium from ore in a simple, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly way. An MIT spin-off wants to market it.

A couple of weeks ago, an outbreak of hantavirus erupted aboard a cruise ship. Three people died, but the outbreak was kept ...

Critical minerals firm Lohum is set to operationalize its newly acquired Zimbabwe lithium mines to secure upstream supply, ...

Somewhere between 50 and 200 million years ago, in three stellar nurseries not far from our corner of the Milky Way, at least ...

Texas lawmakers proposed a bill to allow private-sector lithium mining companies to work on certain military bases.

A study has found that sodium-ion batteries, made from sodium—a cheaper and more abundant element than lithium—have reached ...

By Ernest Scheyder May 18 (Reuters) - Compass Minerals plans to jump back into the lithium market by partnering with technology startup EnergyX to extract the battery metal from Utah's Great Salt Lake ...

Texas oilfields may become America’s next major lithium source as AI-driven battery demand surges and Permian wastewater ...

All figures are in US dollars unless otherwise stated.LEWISVILLE, Ark., May 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Smackover Lithium, a partnership ...