A £14.3m investment from the Government’s Getting Building Fund (GBF) to stimulate post-COVID-19 recovery over the next 18 months will support £59m worth of projects and 1,100 jobs in Cornwall.
Europe’s first geothermal lithium recovery pilot plant to extract lithium for use in batteries. This project represents a £4m collaboration between Geothermal Engineering Ltd (GEL) and Cornish Lithium at GEL’s deep geothermal project at United Downs to demonstrate that lithium can be produced from geothermal brines with a zero-carbon footprint.
British Lithium is also developing a world class hardrock lithium project in Cornwall.
The Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership| 4 Aug 2020
