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“There’s
a lot of opportunities for lithium in Alberta,” said Roy Eccles, a
senior consultant with Apex Geoscience in Edmonton, in an interview with
CBC’s Radio Active.
Eccles
says exploration in the last decade by companies of the Devonian-aged
oil and gas reservoirs — between 1,600 and 3,330 metres below the
surface — has confirmed the accompanying salt-water brine is enriched
with lithium.
The Leduc Formation, the source of Alberta’s first
big oil boom, is also a rich lithium deposit. There are about 10.6
million tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent identified in the
province, according to the Canadian Lithium Association, and
the potential could be even higher.