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From: Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Fracking wastewater has 40% of US need for lithium
Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 14:49:37 GMT
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On a sunny day (Fri, 31 May 2024 13:42:26 +0200) it happened Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote in <v3ccv7$277to$1@dont-email.me>:

>On 5/31/24 13:08, Jan Panteltje wrote:
>> On a sunny day (Fri, 31 May 2024 11:08:27 +0200) it happened Jeroen Belleman
>> <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote in <v3c3uh$25n58$1@dont-email.me>:
>> 
>>> On 5/31/24 07:23, Jan Panteltje wrote:
>>>> Fracking wastewater has 'shocking' amount of clean-energy mineral lithium
>>>> 40% of US need for lithium could be covered by Pennsylvania's fracking byproduct.
>>>>    https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/fracking-wastewater-has-shocking-amount-of-clean-energy-mineral-lithium/
>>>>
>>>>                           
>>>
>>> I'd think that extracting Li at a few hundred ppm concentration levels
>>>from a complex mixture is likely to be expensive.
>> 
>> Seems it already has been done.
>> The greens already complain too:
>>   https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29052024/pennsylvania-fracking-wastewater-lithium/
>> 
>> quote:
>>   So far there is one Pennsylvania company, Eureka Resources in Lycoming County,
>>   working on lithium extraction from produced water.
>>   In 2023, the company announced it had successfully extracted “97 percent pure lithium carbonate”
>>   from wastewater and plans to incorporate the process at its three Pennsylvania facilities
>>   within the next two years.
>> 
>
>Yes, I saw that, but there are no details about the process, the
>composition of the raw feedstock and wastes, or the cost. I guess
>they only did this in a chemistry lab with small samples, not
>really representative of an industrial process.
>
>The Li concentration of raw feedstock from Chili is five times
>higher, and its composition is much simpler, making processing
>much cheaper.

OK, I am no chemist so... maybe somebody here knows?
Google found one company, but not much on the 'how'.