Alberta says it’s sitting on a potential US$1 trillion lithium resource. What happens now? | Metals Mine

  • Alberta says it’s sitting on a potential US$1 trillion lithium resource. What happens now?

    From bnnbloomberg.ca

    Alberta is sitting on one of the largest lithium resources in the world. The challenge now is proving it can actually be produced. The province’s rich lithium discovery is not sudden. Scientists and oil companies knew of dissolved lithium in underground brine across oil and gas fields for decades, but the economics and technology were not in place to measure it or extract it. Until recently. Last week, the province quantified its in-place lithium resources for the first time. The Alberta Geological Survey found Alberta holds 82.5 million tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent, potentially ranking it as the third ... (full story)

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