Lithium Valley: Firm hoping to extract lithium by Salton Sea says manganese also present
Could Lithium Valley become Manganese Valley? Controlled Thermal Resources, one of three companies pushing to produce valuable lithium from underneath Imperial County, announced on Monday that there might be five times more manganese than lithium in the scalding brine it is pumping up at the south end of the Salton Sea. The manganese, also a critical component in electric vehicle batteries and storage systems, “can be produced simultaneously, without compromising our lithium production schedule or delivery,” CTR’s Chief Executive Officer Rod Colwell said in an upbeat third quarter report. The company said it has a specialized engineering group working on manganese recovery for battery-quality production, and plans to test the process on freshly pumped brine in coming months.
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