Reply to the Boschetti's comments on the paper: “Lithium-rich geothermal brines in Europe: An up-date about geochemical characteristics and implications for potential Li resources” by Sanjuan et al. (2022)

Bernard Sanjuan Sanjuan (1) , Romain Millot (1)

1 BRGM - Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM)

The Boschetti’s comments are mainly focused on the estimation of reservoir temperatures for the deep Li-rich brines from Salton Sea (California, USA) and Cesano (Italy) as well as that of the South Crofty Mine (UK) waters, using the new Na-Li geothermometric approach involving the equilibrium reactions and thermodynamic data published in Boschetti (2022). In our opinion, this approach is very useful and complementary to the use of the Na-Li thermometric relationships existing in the literature (Fouillac and Michard, 1981; Kharaka et al., 1982; Kharaka and Mariner, 1989; Michard, 1990; Sanjuan et al., 2014).

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Chemical Sciences; Sciences of the Universe [physics]

Bernard Sanjuan Sanjuan, Romain Millot. Reply to the Boschetti's comments on the paper: “Lithium-rich geothermal brines in Europe: An up-date about geochemical characteristics and implications for potential Li resources” by Sanjuan et al. (2022). Geothermics, 2023, 111, pp.102688. ⟨10.1016/j.geothermics.2023.102688⟩. ⟨hal-04044053⟩