Turning
Waste into Sustainability
Forget everything you know about lithium mining - one of the world’s most sustainable lithium sources comes from wastewater, not new mines.
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Fueling Greener Lives
In our bustling cities and serene countryside, a quiet revolution is reshaping our world for the better. At Lithium Harvest, we drive this transformation with one powerful idea: "Fueling Greener Lives."
Imagine a day when engines hum without exhaust, whispering the promise of a cleaner tomorrow. Electric vehicles glide silently through our streets, powered by lithium batteries made from what was once waste. This isn't a distant dream but a reality we're building every day.
Our journey begins deep underground, where we turn waste into a critical resource for the energy transition. Every drop of processed water gets us closer to a sustainable future.
But our journey extends far beyond. It reaches into the lives we touch. Envision families basking in the comfort of clean, reliable energy from advanced lithium batteries, feeling secure even during peak times - imagine entrepreneurs who can foster innovative, sustainable businesses thanks to our solutions. Picture communities where air quality improves as more electric vehicles hit the roads, reducing pollution for those who need it most.
"Fueling Greener Lives" is more than a tagline - it's our passion. It's about making sustainability a part of everyday life. Every battery we help produce, every vehicle we power, and every home we light up is part of this beautiful story. We're not just fueling energy - we're fueling aspirations, dreams, and a greener future for all.
Let's embrace sustainable lithium extraction and make a lasting difference - one lithium-ion at a time.
Building a Sustainable Future - Our Unwavering Promises
At Lithium Harvest, our promises are the pillars of our commitment to the planet, our partners, and our people. They guide every decision we make - from how we build projects to how we build relationships.
These promises drive us to create a more sustainable future, foster open and lasting partnerships, and nurture a workplace where innovation, inclusion, and growth thrive. They’re not just ideals but the foundation of everything we do.
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A promise to the world
Our commitment to a sustainable and greener future
We're committed to making a lasting, positive impact on our planet through innovative and responsible practices.
- Circular economy and sustainability: We're dedicated to advancing the circular economy by turning waste into valuable resources, striving for zero emissions and zero discharge. Sustainability isn't a goal; it's our way of doing business.
- Green energy transition and local manufacturing: We lead the global energy transition by producing high-quality lithium compounds, ensuring a domestic supply of critical minerals, and promoting economic growth.
- Equality, equity, and innovation: We champion equality and equity, constantly innovate, drive economic growth, and ensure environmental stewardship to accelerate the energy transition.
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A promise to partners
Our commitment to strong, transparent, and dependable relationships
We're committed to building trust and fostering collaborative relationships with our partners and communities.
- Dependability and commitment: We're dependable and honor our commitments, ensuring timely responses, deliveries, and transparent communication. Our word is our bond.
- Responsible management and accountability: We manage your trust with utmost care, make timely and informed decisions, and maintain accountability in all our actions. Our principle: If you wouldn’t invest your grandmother’s pension in it, don’t do it.
- Partnership and community engagement: We're a strong community partner, investing in local well-being, creating jobs, and supporting joint growth and innovation with our partners.
- Partnership experience excellence: We align our values and goals with yours, delivering quality products and collaborative solutions that drive long-term success and mutual benefits.
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A promise to ourselves
Our commitment to a vibrant, inclusive, and innovative workplace
We're committed to fostering a diverse, healthy, and creative work environment where everyone can thrive.
- Equality, diversity, and fairness: We uphold equality, embrace diversity, and ensure fairness in all our interactions, creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued. Our employees are the fuel driving the green energy transition.
- Healthy work environment and family values: We prioritize the physical and mental health and personal growth of our employees. We are a family supporting each other, ensuring mutual success and support.
- Innovation and creativity: We promote a culture of innovation and creativity, making our workplace fun and ambitious and encouraging outside-the-box thinking.
Why Are We Mining or Brining Lithium?
The energy transition runs on critical minerals - no energy transition without lithium.
Lithium is the non-negotiable enabler of electrification
Lithium has moved from a specialty metal to the single most critical input for global decarbonization. Decarbonizing transport and power are the fastest levers we have, but it can’t happen without an immediate, responsible supply of battery minerals. To replace combustion with electrons, you need batteries at scale for vehicles and the grid. That’s why the world needs more lithium.
Energy security now equals mineral security
The IEA’s diversification rule has shifted from fuels to minerals. Access to battery-grade lithium now underpins industrial strategy, resilience, and decarbonization.
The problem with today’s supply
- Too slow: decade-long mines can’t match the speed of the transition.
- Too concentrated: long, fragile supply chains amplify risk.
- Too heavy: high CO₂, high freshwater use, large land footprints.
Lithium supply chains are failing the energy transition
“More” can’t mean “more of the same.” Traditional mining is slow to develop and has a significant environmental impact. If batteries are the engine of the transition, the lithium inside them must be sourced differently. We need diversified, secondary sources that are faster, more local, and more sustainable to enable energy transition.
Lithium That Doesn’t Cost the Earth
Built for the energy transition, not for the last century of mining.
At Lithium Harvest, sustainability isn’t a CSR program. It’s the reason our technology exists. Instead of expanding mining in remote regions, we extract lithium from wastewater already flowing through existing infrastructure. By turning a waste stream into high-purity lithium, we reduce emissions, conserve water and land, and accelerate the energy transition.
Today, about 89% of all lithium still comes from remote, traditional, billion-dollar projects shipped halfway around the planet for refining - the opposite of what electrification needs. If lithium powers decarbonization, its production must be fast, local, and low-impact. We work with water that already must be managed. Our model flips that script with surface-based, modular facilities co-located near existing infrastructure and closer to demand.
Three simple principles guide our approach:
- Use what already exists - use existing wells, pads, pipelines, and power instead of building heavy new infrastructure.
- Design for low impact - focus on low CO₂ intensity, minimal freshwater use, and a compact land footprint from day one.
- Create shared value - turn a cost center into revenue for partners while supplying cleaner lithium to the battery value chain.
But Why Wastewater From the Energy Industry?
Because this is the perfect marriage between oil and gas and renewables.
The energy debate is too often framed as oil and gas vs renewables. That no longer fits the moment. Global energy demand is rising, climate goals are urgent, and electrification needs lithium now, not on decade-long mine timelines. As electrification surges, securing critical minerals matters as much as adding new clean energy.
This isn’t about replacement. It’s an add-on. Oil and gas won’t vanish overnight, and their wastewater already flows at scale through installed infrastructure. By recovering lithium at the surface from those streams, legacy assets help finance the clean-tech build-out while lowering the cost and CO₂ of the critical-mineral supply. That’s how the old system plugs directly into the new one.
We need unconventional/secondary lithium sources
Decade-long mines won’t meet near-term demand. Produced water and geothermal brines accelerate supply with lower impact and closer-to-demand delivery - which speeds the transition.
How does this compare to traditional mining on sustainability metrics?
Same Lithium. Smaller Footprint.
The side-by-side comparison of traditional lithium mining vs Lithium Harvest.
Traditional Mining |
Lithium Harvest Solution |
Why It’s Different |
Sustainability Advantage |
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| Lithium feedstock | Continental brine/spodumene | Produced water/geothermal brines | We extract what already flows through existing pads and pipelines - no new pits, no ponds | Zero new scars. Turn liability into lithium, skip blasting and mega ponds, and add a new, sustainable source for the transition |
| Project implementation time | 5-17 years | 12-18 months | Surface-based, modular, co-located on existing infrastructure and tie-ins | Ship lithium this cycle. Up to 17× faster than greenfield mines - why wait to decarbonize? |
| Lithium carbonate production time | 2 hours - 6 months | 2 hours | No evaporation. No round-the-world refining | Hours instead of months - extract and refine on site, cutting emissions, cost, and time |
| Lithium yield | 20-95% | >95% | Optimized process tuned to complex brines | More lithium from the same resource = less waste per ton. Haven’t we wasted enough? |
| Land footprint (per t LCE) | 172-39,352 ft² | 61 ft² | No large ponds or pits – just modular, compact lithium extraction | Up to 99% smaller. Roughly 243 parking spaces saved per ton - keep land for people, not pits |
| Freshwater use (per t LCE) | 26,417-118,877 gal | 22,729 gal | High internal recycling; With up to 90% water recycling plant-wide | Up to 81% lower - about 1.5 million cups of coffee saved per ton |
| CO₂ footprint (per t LCE) | 2.5-20.4 t CO₂e | Net-zero operations (if possible) | We remove the big emitters: no blasting, calcination, and trucking - just low-pressure, clean energy, etc. | Cut up to 20.4 t CO₂e per ton. That’s 4.4 cars off the road for a year - per ton |
| CapEx intensity (per t LCE) | $34,000 - $62,500 | $17,100/t | Leverages existing infrastructure; modular | Spend less, start sooner. Up to 73% lower to add a sustainable supply. So, add more! |
| OpEx (per t LCE) | $6,000 - $7,000 | $3,647/t | Automated, low-pressure operations, short logistics, fixed feedstock price | Cheaper to run. 48% lower operating cost - sustainability that improves the P&L |
| Supply resilience | Concentrated geographies; long chains | Distributed, domestic/nearby fluids | Diversified sources near cathode/cell plants | Shorter, safer supply. Fewer chokepoints, lower logistics emissions, faster response to demand |
Traditional Mining
Lithium Harvest Solution
Why It’s Different
Sustainability Advantage
What This Means in the Real World
EV breakeven and savings vs ICE with Lithium Harvest vs traditional mining.
Same EV, cleaner inputs. You break even sooner, and the lifetime footprint drops further.
For the full methodology and scenarios, see our article: EV Greenhouse Gas Emission Breakeven Point.
ICE |
EV (Traditional Mining) |
EV (Lithium Harvest) |
Impact |
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| Battery CO₂ | - | 4.7 tonne | 2.0 tonne | -57% |
| Lifetime CO₂ | 54.3 tonne | 16.9 tonne | 14.2 tonne | -16% (-74% vs ICE) |
| GHG breakeven vs ICE | - | 11,335 mi/18,243 km | 1,982 mi/3,190 km | 5.7× sooner - 83% fewer km |
| Water saved per car | - | - | 17.6 m³ | 70,000 cups of coffee or 120 bathtubs |
| Land saved per car | - | - | 141 m² | 11-12 parking spaces or ½ a tennis court |
ICE
EV (Traditional Mining)
EV (Lithium Harvest)
Impact
From One Ton to Market Demand
Scaling per-ton savings to real-world volumes.
We’ve shown the per-ton difference. Here’s what it looks like when you scale those savings to the systems that actually move the world.
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One plant, one year - 15,000 t LCE - how does it add up?
One plant, one year. Picture a single modular plant running at 15,000 t LCE/year. Over a year, that’s 306,000 t CO₂e kept out of the air, 1,442,220,000 gallons of water saved, and 589,365,000 ft² of land impact avoided. In plain terms: about 2,180 Olympic pools of water and 10,200 football fields of land preserved, plus the CO₂ of 66,000 passenger-car years taken off the road. One site, one year - real-world scale.
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A 50,000-vehicle fleet you can picture
A fleet you can picture. Now imagine 50,000 EVs rolling off the line with lithium from Lithium Harvest instead of a traditional supply. Behind those batteries, you cut 135,000 t CO₂e - about 29,500 passenger-car years of emissions. You also save around 232,500,000 gallons of water - 3.7 billion cups of coffee - and avoid about 7.05 km² of land impact (that’s 1,000 soccer pitches or 575,000 parking spaces). Same cars. Same performance. Cleaner inputs that move the needle faster.
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And remember - we’re talking millions of tonnes of LCE
And remember. We may need more than 3,300,000 t of LCE in 2030 and more than 6,000,000 t in 2040. Even if every announced project gets built, only about 80% of the 2030 demand is covered. The gap won’t wait. That’s why the answer isn’t just more lithium. It’s faster, local, lower-impact lithium that uses what already flows.
We won’t supply all the world’s lithium. But we can move the needle with every modular train we bring online.
Projects That Make a Difference
Real sites. Real lithium. Real impact.
We have committed ourselves to the energy transition and are here to produce critical metals for energy storage more sustainably and efficiently.
Sustainability That Improves the P&L
We’re creating a win-win - sustainability that improves the P&L.
Sustainability isn’t a cost center. We produce cleaner lithium that’s faster to build, cheaper to run, and easier to buy. It’s proof that you can make one of the world’s most sustainable lithium sources - and build a strong business doing it.
Proof that green = commercial - let’s do more of it!
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Sustainable lithium that’s affordable
- CapEx intensity: $17,100/t LCE vs traditional mining at $34,000 - $62,500/t - up to 73% lower upfront so that we can build more capacity, cheaper.
- OpEx: $3,647/t - about 48% lower operating cost, cheaper to run by design.
Why it matters commercially: More projects pencil in more markets, earlier payback, durable margins through cycles, and headroom to compete at market-clearing price bands.
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Closer to demand
A future traditional route could be: mine in Australia → refine in China → ship to North America/EU.
Our route: Extract and refine on-site, co-located near cathode and cell hubs in North America and Europe.
Why it matters commercially: Lower freight cost and emissions, higher delivery reliability, stronger battery-passport fit.
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Faster build timeline
12-18 months from FID to operations - surface-based, modular, and co-located with existing infrastructure.
Impact: Earlier cash flow, phased scaling as demand grows, and faster delivery of sustainable supply into the energy transition. Why wait for traditional mining when you can accelerate the energy transition?
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A win-win for partners
- Oil & midstream: turn a produced-water cost center into a revenue stream.
- Geothermal: unlock dual revenue (power + lithium) from the same asset.
- Battery & cathode makers: secure cleaner, local inputs with improved Scope 3 and battery passport alignment.
Why it matters commercially: New profit lines for operators and tighter, regional offtake for OEMs.
This Is Just the Beginning
Projects today, a cleaner lithium supply tomorrow.
At Lithium Harvest, our current projects are just the beginning. They lay the foundation for a much bigger vision - one where sustainable, efficient, and responsible lithium extraction becomes the industry norm.
We’re not stopping here. As we grow, our commitment to innovation and sustainability will drive new projects that continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible in lithium production.
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Sustainable lithium that moves the transition forward.
