Characteristic and resource potential of water soluble lithium in lithium-rich salt lake sediments from Qaidam Basin, China

• Zhe Ma ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhe Ma, Dan Ma

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: mazhe@isl.ac.cn (ZM); maxz@isl.ac.cn (XM)

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Green and High-end Utilization of Salt Lake Resources, Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0007-8393-7374

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• Xiuzhen Ma ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  * E-mail: mazhe@isl.ac.cn (ZM); maxz@isl.ac.cn (XM)

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Green and High-end Utilization of Salt Lake Resources, Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China

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• Dan Ma ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhe Ma, Dan Ma

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Xining Center of Natural Resources Comprehensive Survey, China Geological Survey, Xining, China

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• Yubin Li,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Green and High-end Utilization of Salt Lake Resources, Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China

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• Xin Liu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Green and High-end Utilization of Salt Lake Resources, Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China

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• Guojing Zhu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Green and High-end Utilization of Salt Lake Resources, Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China

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• Qi Wei,

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Green and High-end Utilization of Salt Lake Resources, Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China

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• Yunqi Ma,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Green and High-end Utilization of Salt Lake Resources, Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China

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• Syed Hussain Asim,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Construction Materials Testing Laboratory, Public Works Department, Gilgit, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8643-0532

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• Lu Cong

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Chengdu Academy of Educational Sciences (Chengdu Research Office of Basic Education), Chengdu, China

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