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* (Lake Twitter today). "Miners and explorers in South America’s ‘Lithium Triangle’ – which contains about 75% of the world’s known resources – also face scrutiny.“The Lithium Triangle is one of the driest places on Earth, which complicates the process of lithium extraction: miners have to drill holes in the salt flats to pump salty, mineral-rich brine to the surface,” according to the Harvard International Review.“They then let the water evaporate for months at a time, forming a mixture of potassium, manganese, borax, and lithium salts that is then filtered and left to evaporate once more.“While lithium extraction is relatively cheap and effective, it begs the question of sustainability and long-term impact.”It explains why new ‘environmentally friendly’ extraction techniques – like those championed by lithium stocks Lake Resources (ASX:LKE) and Vulcan Energy (ASX:VUL) – are gaining traction with the market".