'Significant step': Lithium extracted from geothermal brine in County Durham

Cecilia Keating
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Credit: Weardale Lithium CEO Steward Dickson and Watercycle Technologies' Seb Leaper with lithium carbonate | Credit: Weardale Technologies
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Credit: Weardale Lithium CEO Steward Dickson and Watercycle Technologies' Seb Leaper with lithium carbonate | Credit: Weardale Technologies

Weardale Lithium celebrates extraction of lithium carbonate from geothermal brines near Eastgate

Lithium carbonate has been successfully extracted from geothermal brines at a former cement works in County Durham, an achievement that has been hailed as a major coup in the development of a domestic...

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