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> The team also continues to look at the possibility of extracting other, lower-concentration materials from the brine stream, he says, including various metals and other chemicals

Lithium from desalination brines seems to be one potential (and promising) such [0], environmentally better in more than one way than the current methods of lithium mining [1].

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313372304_Towards_l...

[1] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/lithium-batteries-environmen...

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