Lithium Mining's Next Frontier.

To spot a lithium mine in South America, look for the evaporation ponds: gigantic, lurid, blue-green pools of brine. Power Train Business: electric vehicles The Vasquez brothers aren't used to visitors. Traditional lithium mines rely on a simple two-year-long evaporation process to separate lithium from the salty brines, allowing massive amounts of water to escape; by contrast, in a few hours Lilac's technology can recover up to twice as much lithium and return "virtually all" of the salt water to its aquifer, according to Promnitz. A few miles from the farm, Lake Resources, the mining company Promnitz founded six years ago, is now laying the groundwork for its lithium mine - dubbed Kachi. [Extracted from the article]