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Lithium Brine

Not a mineral but a saturated salt solution beneath a salar. Concentrated by solar evaporation over 12-24 months, or now by direct lithium extraction.

Lithium brine extraction in the Salar de Uyuni salt flat, P… · Pierre Markuse · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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Not a mineral but a saturated salt solution beneath a salar. Concentrated by solar evaporation over 12-24 months, or now by direct lithium extraction.

Materials that come from it

Material	Role	Grade note
Lithium	Principal brine source	200-2,000 mg/L Li in raw brine

Lithium

A soft, silvery metal so light it floats on water, and the element that lets a rechargeable battery store a lot of…

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