Spotlight: Projects to watch in 2026

The Canadian company has acquired three patents related to battery anode materials from South Korea’s Yonsei University.

The Canadian company believes the Lithium King property has the potential to host a lithium and magnesium brine deposit.

Early results from metallurgical test work at Mina do Barroso show potential for lower capital and operating costs.

Over 2,000 megawatt-hours of new energy storage systems were brought online in Q4-2020 in the United States.

The Electric Mine Consortium’s goal is to accelerate progress towards the fully-electrified, zero-CO2 and zero-particulates mine.

The Canadian company wants to acquire 13 lithium-potassium-boron prospective salars in central Mexico.

The British Columbia-based company is working on a project that uses the hydrometallurgical Re-2Ox process to recover metals from lithium-ion, nickel-hydride and nickel-cadmium batteries.

The company has successfully completed the conversion of its Arkansas-produced lithium chloride into 99.985% pure lithium carbonate.

Engineers are working to incorporate a bipolar technology that uses silicon wafers in traditional lead batteries.