Don't take up darts Sour Puss.
Unconsolidated sands can be engineered out of the equation with well head sand filters.
Recycled brackish water is not fresh water so not an issue.
Recycled acid circuit means no excessive acid use and all lithium chloride conversion requires reagents to produce Lithium Carbonate or Hydroxide so no issue unless you are against the entire lithium industry.
2026 might be when we are at 100kta but 2024 is still 50kta proposal.
Do you have any facts to change the above or just more cut and paste FUD. IMHO
VANCOUVER, BC, April 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/-- Lithium South Development Corporation (the "Company") (TSX-V:LIS) (OTCQB: LISMF)(Frankfurt: OGPQ)is pleased to provide an update on the continuedevaluation of Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) technology for its Hombre MuertoNorth Lithium Project, located in Salta Province, Argentina.
Lilac Solutions of Oakland California, a lithiumextraction company providing technology and services to lithium brinedevelopers, has advised the Company that they have completed their own testingusing their patented Ion Exchange (IX) media on a synthetic sample of the HMNLi Project brine, identical in chemical composition to that contained withinthe projects NI 43-101 Preliminary Economic Assessment previously filed by theCompany. The results produced a lithium chloride eluate solution recovering 99%of the lithium with very low reagent consumption. The eluate composition showedhigh purity and low total dissolved solids. This eluate would be concentratedusing reverse osmosis and mechanical evaporation to feed a conventional plantfor the production of lithium hydroxide or lithium carbonate. Both acid andbase reagents used in the process can be produced on site using a chlor-alkalisystem. Water consumption was 18 metric tonnes for each tonne of LithiumCarbonate Equivalent produced. The results and values reported were provided byLilac Solutions and were not conducted in an ISO Certified Laboratory under thesupervision of a Qualified Person, and the results presented have not beenverified by a Qualified Person.
Conventional lithium extraction involves the construction oflarge evaporation ponds to concentrate the lithium contained in the raw brine.The costs of pond construction is significant, the environmental footprint islarge, and the production lead time is approximately 18 months. These factorscontribute to the challenges of applying the traditional evaporation process tomeet increasing market demand. Prior Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE)technologies have also struggled due to high water and energy consumption.Lilac's new lithium extraction process enables rapid and low cost extraction oflithium from brine with minimal water and energy. The Company is evaluatingboth conventional evaporation and DLE to determine the optimal process methodfor the HMN Li Project.
