Simbol Materials fired the vast majority of its employees last week, casting serious doubt on the company's claims it will bolster the Imperial Valley's struggling economy and reshape global ...

Simbol has spent years developing technology to extract lithium from geothermal brine, a leftover of geothermal energy production near the Salton Sea.

Simbol Materials was a lithium extraction startup based on the southern shore of the Salton Sea, southeast of Southern California’s Coachella Valley.