![]() ![]() Now EnergySource plans to break ground on a clean, billion-dollar facility in the next few months to extract lithium from the brine before reinjecting it underground.Įstimates of the amount of lithium in the region are staggering. In the past, the mineral-rich brine was simply returned to the earth. It produces steam, which drives turbines to generate electricity. Six hundred degree brine rises to the surface from more than a mile beneath the earth. The process being developed by the Salton Sea makes use of the brine already being brought to the surface by geothermal electric plants. ![]() Companies are working to extract lithium in California The facility from EnergySource Minerals would be the cleanest, most efficient lithium process in the world, Spomer said. Typically, lithium is either extracted from rock mining operations, or recovered from evaporation ponds. ![]()
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