MARCH 2024ENVIRONMENTAL BUSINESS REVIEW19 The company has advanced its technology, which is now used to rapidly delineate zones of lithium and boron concentration, and map the amount of flow associated with these different zones for lithium extraction.In 2004, BESST was granted an exclusive license from the United States Geological Survey for its miniaturized downhole tracer and depth-dependent sampler. One of the objectives of the license was to improve upon the technology and commercialize it for service within the industry. BESST has also developed multi-level groundwater monitoring technologies and small-diameter Panacea Pumps popular in the mining sector. These pumps can lift the sample to the surface (up to 3,000 feet), dramatically reducing the cost of drilling, building, and monitoring wells in mines. Its latest development, Perfectly Isolated Compounds and Organics or PICO, can collect groundwater samples without any atmospheric contact. Scientists in the field can now fill sample vials in the small handheld device without any atmospheric contamination.Reliable technologies, superior services, and an incredible team of hydrogeologists and engineers have been vital to BESST's success. With innovation at the core, it has made its mark in the subsurface sampling space. What we do is analogous to catheterization of humans for angioplasty. It's all done through a catheter. We are essentially catheterizing wells with our technologies to avoid having to pull out the pumps and damage the wells
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