As reported by The Wall Street Journal, new DLE Tech🇺🇸"As reported by The Wall Street Journal, new lithium extraction technologies are attracting attention as these methods could help increase supplies while attracting investors for their potential to speed up production and reduce the environmental impact compared with most current lithium extraction methods, and are so far unproven at commercial scale." The process is fully deployable and operational at the brine source, eliminating the need to evaporate the brines and/or transportation of brine concentrates to a chemical processing facility to form and purify lithium carbonate. Deployment of this technology will reduce dependence on foreign lithium sources.
While traditional extraction methods yield about 40 per cent to 50 per cent of the lithium present in a mined or brine resource, processes using DLE can extract 75 per cent to 90 per cent.