Classification and characteristics of natural lithium resources

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Advance review on the exploitation of the prominent energy-storage element: Lithium. Part I: from mineral and brine resources

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Deep Fluids in the Continents: I. Sedimentary Basins

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Lithium enrichment in intracontinental rhyolite magmas leads to Li deposits in caldera basins

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Re-assessing the European lithium resource potential – A review of hard-rock resources and metallogeny

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Closed Basin Brine Evolution and the Influence of Ca–Cl Inflow Waters: Death Valley and Bristol Dry Lake California, Qaidam Basin, China, and Salar de Atacama, Chile

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Lithium Brines: A Global Perspective

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Lithium mining: accelerating the transition to sustainable energy

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From Mine to Mind and Mobiles: Society’s Increasing Dependence on Lithium

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The evaluation of brine prospects and the requirement for modifications to filing standards

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The Minerals of Lithium

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Chemistry and Geothermometry of Brine Produced From the Salton Sea Scientific Drill Hole, Imperial Valley, California

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Lithium in the McDermitt caldera, Nevada and Oregon

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The Plumbago North pegmatite, Maine, USA: a new potential lithium resource

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Lithium

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A preliminary look at lithium in the United Kingdom

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LITHIUM IN THE McDERMITT CALDERA, NEVADA AND OREGON

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Lithium extraction from low-quality brines

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Lithium extraction from salt lake brines with high magnesium/lithium ratio: a review

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Technology for the Recovery of Lithium from Geothermal Brines

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Lithium: A review of applications, occurrence, exploration, extraction, recycling, analysis, and environmental impact

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Recent advances in lithium extraction from salt lake brine using coupled and tandem technologies

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Towards sustainable extraction of technology materials through integrated approaches

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Lithium extraction from unconventional aqueous resources – A review on recent technological development for seawater and geothermal brines

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Recent advances in lithium extraction from lithium-bearing clay minerals

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Lithium in groundwater used for drinking-water supply in the United States

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Lithium Extraction Techniques and the Application Potential of Different Sorbents for Lithium Recovery from Brines

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Tracing the origin of lithium in Li-ion batteries using lithium isotopes

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Lithium in a Sustainable Circular Economy: A Comprehensive Review

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From Mine to Mind and Mobiles: Society’s Increasing Dependence on Lithium

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Lithium pegmatite of anatectic origin – A case study from the Austroalpine Unit Pegmatite Province (Eastern European Alps): Geological data and geochemical modeling

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Review of recent progress on lithium recovery and recycling from primary and secondary sources with membrane-based technologies

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An evaporite sequence from ancient brine recorded in Bennu samples

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The race for critical minerals in Africa: A blessing or another resource curse?

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Concerns about lithium extraction: A review and application for Portugal✰

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A Review of Fatty Acid Collectors: Implications for Spodumene Flotation

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Life cycle assessment and water use impacts of lithium production from salar deposits: Challenges and opportunities

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Handheld LIBS analysis for in situ quantification of Li and detection of the trace elements (Be, Rb and Cs)

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Global Biogeochemical Cycle of Lithium

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Lithium sources in oilfield waters from the Qaidam Basin, Tibetan Plateau: Geochemical and Li isotopic evidence

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Fast ammonium sulfate salt assisted roasting for selectively recycling degraded LiFePO4 cathode

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Lithium Pegmatites in Africa: A Review

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Lithium-rich claystone in Pingguo area, Guangxi, southwest China: precursor kaolinite controls lithium enrichment

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Efficient separation and extraction of lithium from low-grade claystone by chloride salt-enhanced roasting process

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Hydrometallurgical process of spent lithium-ion battery recycling Part. 2 Recovery of valuable metals from the cathode active material leachates: Review and cost analysis

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Lithium: An energy transition element, its role in the future energy demand and carbon emissions mitigation strategy

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Evaluating the Potential of Rhyolitic Glass as a Lithium Source for Brine Deposits

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The Minerals of Lithium

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Special Issues on the Geology and Origin of Lithium Deposits—Introduction: Lithium Deposit Types, Sizes, and Global Distribution

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Lithium occurrence in drinking water sources of the United States

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Lithium: critical, or not so critical?

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Volcano-Sedimentary Deposits: Overview of an Emerging Type of Lithium Resource

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Ultrafast μLIBS imaging for the multiscale mineralogical characterization of pegmatite rocks

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On tin and lithium granite systems: A crustal evolution perspective

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The migration and mineral host changes of lithium during coal combustion: Experimental and thermodynamic calculation study

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Quartz chemistry of lithium pegmatites and its petrogenetic and economic implications: Examples from Wolfsberg (Austria) and Moylisha (Ireland)

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A review of lithogeochemical dispersion haloes of LCT pegmatites, and their application to rare metal exploration, with special reference to lithium in an Australian context

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Origin and tectonic setting of Pingqiao fluorite-lithium deposit in the Guizhou, southwest Yangtze Block, China

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Sustainable lithium recovery from geothermal brine via integrated membrane distillation – selective electrodialysis

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Space solar power generation: A viable system proposal and technoeconomic analysis

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Pegmatite lithium deposits formed within low-temperature country rocks

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Lithium extraction from a clay-type lithium ore using a mixed solution of sulfuric acid and ferric chloride

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Pathways to Greener Primary Lithium Extraction for a Really Sustainable Energy Transition: Environmental Challenges and Pioneering Innovations

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Monitoring of Lithium Contents in Lithium Ores and Concentrate-Assessment Using X-ray Diffraction (XRD)

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Modes of occurrence of lithium in black shale in the Nandan area, Guangxi, SW China: Implications for clay-type resources

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Origin of lithium in oilfield brines in continental petroliferous basin: Insights from Li and Sr isotopes in the Jianghan Basin, central China

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Experimental constraints on the sources of lithium-rich granites and pegmatites

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Quantification of Lithium and Mineralogical Mapping in Crushed Ore Samples Using Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy

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Co‐doping Graphene with B and N Heteroatoms for Application in Energy Conversion and Storage Devices

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Advances in Mineral Processing of Hard-Rock Lithium Ores: A Comprehensive Review

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The Recovery and Concentration of Spodumene Using Dense Media Separation

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Lithium Occurrence in Italy—An Overview

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Lithium-bearing minerals under the scanning electron microscope equipped with energy dispersive spectrometry: Challenges, recent advances and prospects

Thiéry, V., & Farhat, H. B. (2023) · Chemical Geology · doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2023.121573 · Cited by 23 · see citing works

In situ LA–ICP–MS analyses of muscovite: Constraints on granite-type Li mineralization in northwestern Jiangxi, South China

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Characterization and Resource Potential of Li in the Clay Minerals of Mahai Salt Lake in the Qaidam Basin, China

Pan, T., Chen, J., He, M., Ding, C., Ma, Y., Liang, H., Zhang, T., & Du, X. (2023) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su151914067 · Cited by 23 · see citing works

Appraisal of contamination, hydrogeochemistry, and Monte Carlo simulation of health risks of groundwater in a lithium-rich ore area

Vesković, J., Miletić, A., Lučić, M., & Onjia, A. E. (2024) · Environmental Geochemistry and Health · doi:10.1007/s10653-024-02257-z · Cited by 22 · see citing works

Sequential solar evaporation and selective lithium extraction enabled by hierarchically porous aerogels with high evaporation rate

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Trace element concentrations and chemical zoning of spodumene from magmatic and hydrothermal origins

Brennan, C. J., Student, J. J., Hill, T. R., Martins, T., & Sirbescu, M. C. (2024) · Ore Geology Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2024.106089 · Cited by 21 · see citing works

Quantification of lithium using handheld instruments: application of LIBS and XRF spectroscopy to assay the lithium content of mineral processing products

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Geospatial Data and Deep Learning Expose ESG Risks to Critical Raw Materials Supply: The Case of Lithium

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Preliminary trials on effects of lithium salts on Varroa destructor, honey and wax matrices

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Selective Recovery of Lithium from Lithium Precipitation Mother Liquor by DBM-TIBP Synergetic Extraction System

Chen, L., Li, R., Wang, Y., Yi, J., Han, S., Ren, Z., & Zhou, Z. (2025) · Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research · doi:10.1021/acs.iecr.4c04062 · Cited by 20 · see citing works

Spodumene from rare-metal pegmatites of the Kolmozero lithium world-class deposit on the Fennoscandian shield: trace elements and crystal-rich fluid inclusions

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Paragenesis of Li minerals in the Nanyangshan rare-metal pegmatite, Northern China: Toward a generalized sequence of Li crystallization in Li-Cs-Ta-type granitic pegmatites

Yang, Z.-Y., Wang, R., Che, X., Xie, L., & Hu, H. (2021) · American Mineralogist · doi:10.2138/am-2022-8285 · Cited by 19 · see citing works

Rapid Analysis of Muscovites on a Lithium Pegmatite Prospect by Handheld LIBS

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