Starting just outside Charlotte, North Carolina, a vast underground deposit of lithium stretches south for 25 miles. A key ...

It was once hoped WA would be in the "box seat" to process critical minerals like lithium. So why are processors like Albemarle pulling the pin?

Known as ‘white gold’, lithium is among the most important mined elements on the planet – ideal for the rechargeable batteries used in tech products. Can Europe’s largest deposit bring prosperity to ...

US lithium giant Albemarle will fully shut its Kemerton lithium refinery in a fresh blow to the Albanese government’s plan to ...

The long-planned project will create about 350 jobs and offers Europe’s only production chain of its kind, reducing reliance ...

Resources Minister Madeleine King met the boss of battery chemicals giant Albemarle in Washington as the company prepared to shut down its lithium hydroxide plant south of Perth and deal a new blow to ...

North Carolina is among a few places in the world where lithium mining is possible. Large green areas in white pegmatite rock called spodumene are extracted to make lithium. Lithium is used in ...

It is not lost on local communities that the global South is being asked to bear the environmental cost of making batteries for electric cars so that wealthy countries can decarbonize.

Duke researchers found no evidence of impacts to domestic well water from legacy, or historic, lithium mining in North Carolina. Used in products like rechargeable batteries, lithium is a silvery ...

Mining lithium in the West has been a terrible business recently. From a peak of about $80 a kilo in late 2022, the price of ...