In the race for solutions to unlock untapped sources, engineers have developed new technology enabling direct lithium extraction from extreme environments like the desert. Demand for lithium -- ...

Artwork created by students at the Monash Suzhou Research Institute symbolising the technology's innovative extraction of both lithium and magnesium. Demand for lithium - critical to powering ...

New research shows that magnesium and other metals in mine waste can be solubilized and recovered thanks to acid-producing bacteria. Researcher Nathan van Wyk believes that the method has great ...

A new, simple, and efficient flow-based method allows researchers to pull a useful magnesium salt from natural seawater using easily available chemicals. Since ancient times, humans have extracted ...

Since ancient times, humans have extracted salts, like table salt, from the ocean. While table salt is the easiest to obtain, seawater is a rich source of different minerals, and researchers are ...

Into each of the 500-odd warplanes produced in the U.S. last week went many times as much magnesium as the total U.S. production of this soft, silvery metal in 1914. And thereby hangs a tale: > Of how ...

This spring, the American Chemical Society named two new National Historic Chemical Landmarks (NHCLs) as part of their program that tells the stories of, and acts as a record of, the contributions of ...

Lithium could be selectively extracted from "low quality" brines using a surprising mechanism discovered at the University of Michigan. The technology could help make brine lakes rich in magnesium a ...