Lepidolite, defined the lithium industry in 2024, making fools out analysts and upending billions of sector investment.

Now I’m not going to get into all that, as a tech consultancy we are more interested in the HOW.

Below we shed a little light on how Chinese Lepidolite resources were able to catch the market off-guard.

Extracting lithium from lepidolite is a multi-stage process involving roasting, leaching, purification, and precipitation.

A closer look at how lithium carbonate is produced from lepidolite