Undiscovered lithium deposits in Cornwall in southern England will be tracked with the help of satellites, A consortium of 11 organizations supported by the UK government has launched a research project aimed at identifying lithium's "fingerprints" on satellite images of vegetation and minerals on the ground. In combination with geological data, one wants to create "exploration maps" that can enable identification of indicators in geological structures, which may contain lithium in water deep below the surface.
"We believe that the technologies developed in this study will prove to be of great interest to the mining industry globally considering the growing importance of Earth observation technologies as" discreet "exploration tools worldwide," says Jeremy Wrathall, CEO and founded Cornish Lithium, one of the companies involved in the Satellite Application Catapult project.
Text: Simon Matthis
