The production of lithium from hard rock mines has a lot in common with other mining and refining methods we’ve discussed in this series. Ore-bearing rocks are blasted out of open-pit mines ...

"Increasing lithium refining capacity is critical to a sustainable energy economy." Still, Tesla became the first major automaker in North America to refine its own lithium and appears ...

Greg Abbott joined him to break ground at the 1,200-acre site in Robstown — at a time Musk was promising that lithium refining would be “basically minting money” — prices have fallen as ...

What Happened: The Corpus Christi-area plant represents the large-scale battery-grade lithium refinery in the United States and pioneers an acid-free refining process. This development comes as ...

The government has proposed adding various technologies — some used for lithium refining and battery chemicals production — to its list of items that are subject to export controls ...