Lithium Brine In Alberta.Technology Race to Unlock Potential U of A spinoff company could help unlock a lithium industry for Alberta
Innovative technology extracts the increasingly valuable metal from wastewater produced in existing oil and gas operations.
Alberta’s oil and gas fields could be in store for another natural resource boom thanks to a University of Alberta-based lithium extraction technology with the ability to unlock the increasingly valuable metal.
Faculty of Science geochemist Dan Alessi, professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, and former post-doctoral fellow Salman Safari have spun off their technology to extract lithium from oilfield brines in Alberta into a startup called Recion Technologies
https://reciontechnologies.com/
https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2021/05/u-of-a-spinoff-company-could-help-unlock-a-lithium-industry-for-alberta.html