• Lithium companies in North East and South West collaborate to speed up supplies

    Lithium companies in North East and South West collaborate to speed up supplies

    Companies from opposite ends of the country are teaming up to accelerate the supply of the key material lithium to UK industry.

    County Durham-based Northern Lithium will work with Cornish Lithium delivering sources of lithium through the extraction of the mineral from geothermal waters and hard rock.

    Both companies believe they have a commercially-viable source of the material, and last year the Cornish firm built the first direct lithium extraction (DLE) plant in the UK. Lithium is a key component of batteries, and the two companies hope their partnership will have benefits in accelerating production of it in the UK.

    Source: Chronicle Live