Lithium is becoming a strategic metal due to its important applications in secondary battery electrodes used in electronic appliances and also in electric traction vehicles. Lithium primary resources are brines and rock minerals, the former being nowadays almost exclusively used in the production of lithium commodities. With the expected increase in lithium demand, the development of competitiv...

A mineralogical study of Gonçalo lithium-bearing mica-rich pegmatite ore (Portugal) indicated that lepidolite occurs in coarse-grained textures, which allows an appreciable liberation gangue minerals (quartz, k-feldspar, and albite) from lepidolite. However, the intergrowth these results uncomplicated (i.e., inclusions). Taking advantage this coarse liberation, optical sorting through image ana...

The pegmatites of the Seridó Pegmatite Province show a granitic bulk mineralogical composition, composed K-feldspar, albite, quartz, muscovite and occasionally biotite. Detailed studies major minerals are scarce. There is, on other hand, relatively larger number published contributions concerning pegmatite accessory minerals. This field trip guide focus mainly occurrence locations these last mi...

Reflectance spectroscopy has been used to identify several deposit types. However, applications concerning lithium (Li)-pegmatites are still scarce. spectroscopic studies complemented by microscopic and geochemical were employed in the Fregeneda–Almendra (Spain–Portugal) pegmatite field analyze spectral behavior of Li-minerals lithologies. The similarity target class (Li-pegmatites) with other ...