Resource Separation from Salt Lake Brine

Salt lakes contain abundant mineral resources such as sodium (Na), magnesium (Mg), potassium (K), lithium (Li), boron (B), etc. In the past decades, great progress was achieved in salt lake resource exploitation. Researchers found that ion hydration and complex formation play very important roles in resource separation from salt lake brine. In the present chapter, a general routine for separation of K, Li, B and some rare metal ions from salt lake brine is described, and here we focus on the ion hydration effect based mainly on works from the last decade.