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Rio Tinto produces battery grade lithium from waste rock at Boron mine in California

Posted by Anthony Davis

|April 08, 2021

Rio Tinto produces battery grade lithium from waste rock at Boron mine in California

Rio Tinto has commenced production of battery-grade lithium from waste rock at a lithium demonstration plant at the Boron mine site in California, United States. The demo...

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