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The global transition toward sustainable energy technologies has intensified the search for unconventional lithium resources, including pyrite-bearing organic-rich black shales. This work evaluates the potential application of synchrotron X-ray fluorescence (SXRF) and coupled SXRF–XRD mapping for investigating lithium occurrence in shale systems of North-East India. Conventional analytical methods such as XRF and ICP-based techniques exhibit limitations in detecting low-Z elements such as lithium while preserving spatial and mineralogical information. Synchrotron radiation provides high brilliance, tunable excitation energy, and micron-scale spatial resolution that may enable high-sensitivity elemental mapping and phase correlation in heterogeneous geological materials. The proposed methodology integrates synchrotron XRF elemental imaging with X-ray diffraction phase identification to investigate lithium association with clay minerals and pyrite. This study presents a conceptual framework for applying accelerator-based characterization techniques to unconventional lithium resource exploration.
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''This abstract details the planning and proposed experiments for the characterization of this unconventional lithium reservoir.''
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