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Salt lakes worth their lithium

Researchers in Japan have demonstrated the exceptional potential of a hydrated titanium oxide to extract lithium from salt lake brine collected from Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, the world’s largest salt flat.  

The high levels of magnesium and sulfate in Uyuni brine would create difficulties if it was processed by conventional techniques © Shutterstock

The high levels of magnesium and sulfate in Uyuni brine would create difficulties if it was processed by conventional techniques © Shutterstock

Demand for lithium is growing alongside the development of lithium ion batteries. This strain on scarce supplies puts the cost and effectiveness of current methods for harvesting lithium into question.

Interested? Read the full article at Chemistry World.

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Lithium recovery from salt lake brine by H2TiO3
Ramesh Chitrakar, Yoji Makita, Kenta Ooi and Akinari Sonoda
Dalton Trans., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4DT00467A

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