As can be seen on the flow diagram above, production of LiSO is the launching pad to producing battery grade material for all three lithium batteries ie, NCM, LFP, solid state.
LiSO production could be bolted on to most mines that have concentrators.
Doing this enables two thirds of the waste and most of the impurities to stay at the mine.
LiSO is more concentrated than spodumene concentrate by a factor of about five, ie cheaper to transport.
AKE should consider a mid-stream product as have MIN and PLS.