Many years ago, I read an article about the new hotness: lithium batteries. The author opened with what he no doubt thought was a clever pop culture reference by saying that the mere mention of ...

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“Fruit of the poisonous tree” is a legal metaphor used to describe evidence obtained illegally. The logic is that if the source, the “tree,” of the evidence is tainted, then anything gained from the ...

The major players in extracting lithium from brine include Albemarle, SQM, Livent, and, indirectly, Tianqi Lithium. The biggest players in lithium hard-rock mining are Tianqi, Albemarle, and Ganfeng ...