Extraction of lithium from a montebrasite concentrate ...
1. Introduction. The demand for critical metals (Li, Co, Ni, Ga, Ge, Nb, In, Sb, Ta, Re, Pt, Pd, and REE) has increased dramatically in recent years due to the production of high-technology products, increasingly common in the renewable energy field, that contain small amounts of these metals (Watanabe and Hitzman, 2010).Lithium is the lightest of metals, with high reactivity and high ...