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Exploring the evolution of the lithium mining industry

In their latest eBook, pure play lithium company Lithium Power International (LPI) investigates how the lithium mining sector must advance to supply the ever-growing demand and how the company’s leading projects satisfy global supply chains.

The lithium boom is upon us, with countries globally scrambling to secure this ‘white gold’ that will be pivotal in accelerating the green transition. Lithium is the essential ingredient in an array of green technologies that will help decarbonise the planet – most notably used in lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles (EVs). However, the lithium mining sector has come under scrutiny due to environmental concerns regarding mining processes, and if lithium is truly the power source that will fuel a green future, ensuring it is obtained sustainably is paramount.

These values are shared and championed by LPI, which has an impressively diverse and extensive lithium mining portfolio that includes hard rock lithium projects in Western Australia and the promising Maricunga project located in Chile’s Lithium Triangle. These industry-leading lithium ventures hold not only significant resource potential to drive the green transition but also utilise innovative practices and technologies that will ensure long-term sustainability.

In this eBook, written in partnership with the Innovation News Network, LPI details the evolution of the lithium mining industry, its challenges, technologies transforming the sector, lithium’s role in the green transition, and LPI’s revolutionary projects.

What to expect in this eBook

In the first section of the eBook, you will hear from Andrew Phillips, Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of LPI, who details the challenges facing the lithium market as the demand for the precious resource continues to escalate.

The company then introduces cutting-edge technological developments that are triggering a paradigm shift in the lithium mining sector, such as Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE), which is reducing the environmental impacts of lithium mining.

Later in the eBook, LPI outlines the latest developments from the Maricunga lithium carbonate project in Chile and how it will develop into a crucial supplier for an exponentially growing global market. The company then describes how Western Australia’s extensive lithium mining projects will be critical to achieving carbon neutrality.

In this eBook’s final section, LPI provides an analysis of how the United States’ recent investment in the lithium battery industry will impact the global market.