Company aims to make petroleum brine-based lithium in region (from fracking)

The Williamsport Sun-Gazette ^ | 20 October 2019 | Mark Maroney

[Erik Latranyi]

For every soldier on the battlefield, electric car battery or guts of a smartphone or solar panel, there is lithium to help power them.

Now, a Williamsport-based company has been able to extract the mineral right beneath the region’s feet.

Through a patented process, Eureka Resources, headquartered at 454 Pine St., has developed a technique at its Bradford County plant to extract the rare earth mineral — in high demand and short supply in the United States — from wastewater flowback used in the hydraulic fracturing process in the Marcellus Shale.

“We’re excited our company that purifies water, salt and pure calcium chloride is on track to be one of the world’s first commercial rapid lithium recovery system operators,” said Daniel A. Ertel, company president.

[zeestephen]

Re: will lithium be destroyed despite the law of Conservation of Mass

Actually, what does happen once an element passes beyond the event horizon?

Is it completely shredded into quarks and leptons?

[crusty old prospector]

Yeah, that seems to be that stuff down in the Smackover near Magnolia.

[bert]

——shredded——

In the words of CP 30, it is beyond my capacity.

Having said that however, it in my understanding that when entering the black hole, matter is infinitely compressed rather than torn apart