Rio becomes a lithium producer

RIO Tinto has started producing battery grade lithium from waste rock at a US$10 million lithium demonstration plant at its Boron mine in California.

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Rio Tinto's Boron operation in California

The company revealed in 2019 it was working on a breakthrough process after the team at Boron found that part of the mine's waste rock had higher grade lithium than some US development projects.