Recovery of lithium from spodumene-bearing pegmatites
A typical run of mine spodumene ore assays about 1–2% Li 2 O, which is subjected to a series of processes to yield a beneficiated concentrate having a lithium content of about 6–7% Li 2 O. Table 2 shows the global spodumene-bearing pegmatite resources [25], which indicates that Australia tops the chart.