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Building on its recent recognition as one of four Advanced Manufacturing Technical Excellence Colleges across the nation, New College Durham (NCD) is proud to announce a strategic partnership with Weardale Lithium aimed at strengthening the North East’s emerging lithium battery… Read More »New College Durham and Weardale Lithium Announce Partnership to Accelerate North East Lithium Battery Skills and Innovation

Sir Michael Fallon is a former UK Government minister who served as Defence Secretary, Business Minister, and Energy Minister, with extensive experience in international trade, industrial strategy, and national security. He is an advocate for strengthening secure and resilient supply… Read More »Senior Advisor Appointed

Mark Grey has been appointed by Weardale Lithium to lead lithium sales and marketing. Mark is a chemicals and battery metals specialist with multi-decade expertise, most recently as EMEA sales manager for global lithium chemicals manufacturing business Livent (now Rio… Read More »Senior Advisor Appointed

Weardale Lithium has secured grant funding through the UK Government’s DRIVE35 Scale-Up: Feasibility Studies competition to advance the extraction of lithium from geothermal brines located in Weardale, County Durham.

Weardale Lithium welcomes the publication of the new UK Critical Minerals Strategy and its clear commitment to developing the UK’s mineral deposits in order to secure supply and add supply chain resilience to benefit the UK economy and its communities. The… Read More »Weardale Lithium Welcomes UK Critical Minerals Strategy Publication

Weardale Lithium is pleased to join NOF as a Strategic Partner. Partnering with the UK’s energy sector network and supply chain as we deliver the UK’s largest, permitted lithium brine facility at Eastgate in County Durham

Weardale Lithium, an innovative natural resources development company based in County Durham, has secured a unanimous resolution to grant planning permission from Durham County Council to build the UK’s largest lithium extraction facility. Located in Eastgate in Weardale, County Durham, the facility… Read More »Planning permission granted for UK’s largest lithium extraction facility

HOUSTON, January 30, 2025 – KBR (NYSE: KBR) announced today it has been awarded a contract by Weardale Lithium Limited for one of Europe’s most advanced demonstration facilities for lithium brine extraction in Eastgate, County Durham, United Kingdom.  Under the agreement, KBR… Read More »KBR Selected for Weardale Lithium’s Demonstration Plant in the UK

Weardale Lithium proudly created and hosted the first North East Future Resources Conference in 2024. The North East Future Resources Conference (NEFR) will highlight the opportunities in the North East to responsibly extract metals and minerals, its emergence as a… Read More »North East Future Resources Conference 24

Weardale Lithium Limited (“Weardale Lithium”, “WLL”, or the “Company”), an innovative natural resources development company based in County Durham, UK, is pleased to announce that it has submitted a planning application to Durham County Council for the phased construction of a lithium… Read More »Planning Application Submitted