- Lithium has now established its position as a key part of the energy industry’s future, and the race to secure supplies of this critical metal is heating up.
- One potential source of new lithium is on the California-Mexico border, with the California Energy Commission believing it could supply 40% of the world’s lithium demand.
- Meanwhile, in Argentina, the search is underway for new lithium resources as the country attempts to expand the Lithium Triangle and secure its slice of the pie.
Oilprice
The Next Frontiers In The Lithium Boom
Felicity Bradstock
https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Renewable-Energy/The-Next-Frontiers-In-The-Lithium-Boom.html
Felicity Bradstock
https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Renewable-Energy/The-Next-Frontiers-In-The-Lithium-Boom.html
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Do you know who else has lithium?
Alberta.
I had the chance to follow up for information on Alberta’s lithium resource opportunity with E3 Metals CEO Chris Doornbos. In brief, the story behind E3 Metals is not only a story about a lithium resource company – but also about technology development. However it is important to note, E3 Metals’ resources are being developed on the backbone of Alberta’s mature and sophisticated oil and gas industry.
You could say the company has two feet planted in Alberta’s oil and gas history with one of the largest lithium resources amongst its lithium peers- with 7.0 mn tons of Lithium Carbonate Equivalent (LCE), hosted in the world-class Leduc Aquifer. This is one of three of the Company’s permit areas in south-central Alberta.
A deeper dive into Alberta’s lithium/natural gas connection
As the above article notes, it's environmentally-friendly:
The DLE process has additional environmental advantages. The process has a much smaller land disturbance footprint. Since the process entails reinjecting saline formation water back into the formation, there is no requirement for evaporative ponds, mining waste dumps, open-pit mines, or tailings ponds. The process doesn’t require large volumes of fresh water either.
Also, we have the well data, so we know exactly where the lithium is:
“We know the location of Leduc aquifer is because it’s been drilled to depths for oil and gas exploration, so it’s been delineated it for us – all that data is available through the government and they were able to define exactly where the Leduc exists.”
A win for Alberta if they ain't too stubborn to blow it.
This is funny how all these people think if they could just happen upon the right material substance under their ground then they are going to immediately be on got it made boulevard…
This is like the morons who say we are “out of neon!” when it is right in the air everywhere…
Do what Norway did.
[off topic because Matt needs to be schooled in humility]
The white man drew a small circle in the sand and told the red man, “This is what the Indian knows,” and drawing a big circle around the small one, “This is what the white man knows.” The Indian took the stick and swept an immense ring around both circles: “This is where the white man and the red man know nothing.” —Carl Sandburg
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