Between 2015 and 2018 the price of lithium carbonate, the source of one of the most important elements in electronics, more than tripled. It was a nasty shock for the electronics industry as ...

US-based Volt Lithium has produced 99.5% battery-grade lithium carbonate from oilfield brine in the Permian Basin in West Texas, using its DLE technology. The company has developed DLE technology ...

The brine production from the Permian Basin today is approximately 19 million bbls/d, representing an estimated potential of 325,000 tonnes per annum of lithium carbonate production1. Assuming ...