Lithium is the lightest metal on earth and a crucial material for car and device batteries because of its high energy density. Lithium Americas is building an open pit mine and a processing facility ...

There are four main methods of mining: underground, surface, placer and in-situ. The type of mining method used depends on the kind of resource that is being targeted for extraction, the deposit's ...

A five-year test programme on an innovative mining method that could potentially be used to access high-grade orebodies that are either too small or too deep to be mined economically using ...