Lithium hydrothermalites: prospects and problems of industrial development

The article analyses the prospects and problems of industrial development of lithium hydrothermalites, represented by foreign and Russian deposits. The specifics of their industrial- genetic types, lithium content levels and the state of technologies for its extraction are considered. Attention is focused on the dependence of directions and rates of development of the study lithium deposits on the degree of the chemical-technological knowledge about these deposits, corporate interaction of investors and consumers of lithium products.